Filbert

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A cultivated variety of the common hazelnut, Corylus Avellana. The Turkey filbert is the fruit of C. Colurna. See Corylus.
  • noun. The shrub which bears the nut. Also called filbert-tree.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The tree bearing the filbert; the hazelnut tree.
  • noun. a gall resembling a filbert in form, growing in clusters on grapevines. It is produced by the larva of a gallfly (Cecidomyia).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The hazelnut.
  • noun. The hazel tree.
  • noun. A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
  • noun. small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
    • Word Usage
    "The cob nut, as they call the filbert, is very common there, grown in hedges."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    edible nut  hazel  hazelnut  hazelnut tree  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gilbert  Hilbert  gilbert  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    airside  body-hair  bright-haired  hadrosaur  incarnadine  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cobnut  hazelnut  
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