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fil⋅bert

  [fil-bert]
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–noun
1. the thick-shelled, edible nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, esp. of Corylus avellana, of Europe.
2. a tree or shrub bearing such nuts.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME, short for filbert nut, so called because ripe by Aug. 22 (St. Philbert's day)
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fil·bert   (fĭl'bərt)   
n.  
  1. See hazel.
  2. See hazelnut.

[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.]
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