filbert

[ fil-bert ]

noun
  1. the thick-shelled, edible nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, especially of Corylus avellana, of Europe.

  2. a tree or shrub bearing such nuts.

Origin of filbert

1
1250–1300; Middle English, short for filbert nut, so called because ripe by Aug. 22 (St. Philbert's day)

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filbert

/ (ˈfɪlbət) /


noun
  1. any of several N temperate shrubs of the genus Corylus, esp C. maxima, that have edible rounded brown nuts: family Corylaceae

  2. Also called: hazelnut, cobnut the nut of any of these shrubs

Origin of filbert

1
C14: named after St Philbert, 7th-century Frankish abbot, because the nuts are ripe around his feast day, Aug 22

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