Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cultivated variety of the common hazelnut, Corylus Avellana. The Turkey filbert is the fruit of C. Colurna. See Corylus.
- n. The shrub which bears the nut. Also called filbert-tree.
Wiktionary
- n. The hazelnut.
- n. The hazel tree.
- n. A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or Corylus maxima, also called the hazel; the hazelnut. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
- n. (Bot.) The tree bearing the filbert; the hazelnut tree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
- n. small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
Etymologies
- Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut (compare Norman French noix de filbert), because they are ripe near St. Philibert’s Day (22 August). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French (nois de) filbert, (nut of) Philbert, after Saint Philibert (died 684), whose feast day in late August coincides with the ripening of the nut. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The cob nut, as they call the filbert, is very common there, grown in hedges.”
“The elder and the berberry will grow anywhere, and require no particular care in their culture; the filbert is only a variety of the common hazel, and both are generally grown on the borders of walks, where they are planted from five to ten feet apart, according as they are to be trained upright or spreading.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“A nut having a husk which extended and came together beyond the end of the nut was called filbert, meaning beard.”
“Another brush that has recently come into fashion is called a filbert shape (Class D) by the makers.”
“The filbert is the second highest in food value and I believe it is a nut adapted for a wider range of soils and climates in the North than any other nut.”
“In connection with our own hazel one would naturally think of the filbert, which is a European relative.”
“Happily, though, we came in good season for the green filbert, which is gathered in the fall of the year, being known then as the”
“The European filbert which is grown so successfully in Oregon and”
“The name "filbert" is a corruption of "full beard" and is properly applied only to those nuts in which the husk extends beyond the nut.”
“The pecan, the Japanese walnut, European hazel or more popularly called the "filbert" have all been given limited trials at various times.”
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logos's list
A poor pathetic thing, but mine own.
invidious, lugubriousness, vilify, noisome, synastry, front and center, declension, conjugation, regnal, diphthong, circumlocution, bishopric and 141 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Oregon words
Words that might have something to do with the most beautiful state in the union.
fir, cascade, gorge, desert, pacific, salmon, winery, filbert, green, overcast, rufus, pear and 35 more...
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Aw, Nuts
What it says. Including the ones that aren't really nuts, like peanuts and almonds.
walnut, chestnut, pecan, cashew, peanut, brazil nut, pistachio, hazelnut, almond, coconut, macademia, filbert and 22 more...
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bananahands's list
of, musculature, yam, invent, prototype, filbert, conveyor, duces, eager, bastard, spirits
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Names of Actual Pets I Have Known
With thanks to AbraxasZugzwang for the Aminals list.
je ne sais quoi, frito, stellaluna, stretch, zebedee, caspian wimblewether, shakazulu, finbar, elliott, captain crustacean, filbert, pfeffer and 33 more...
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Words I've Found While Reading and Di...
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demijohn, eiderdown, aeolotropic, haptic, fecundity, mojibake, stochastic, nibble, homoskedastic, Entscheidungsproblem, hirsute, mutule and 68 more...
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surprisingly eponymous
words that derive from personal names, though you might not have guessed it
rodomontade, celadon, galvanize, diesel, sideburns, bloomers, chauvinism, quixotic, epicurean, sandwich, chesterfield, gerrymander and 76 more...
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reesetee Same as a hazelnut. Jul 25, 2007