filbert

Meaning

Noun

• The hazelnut.
• The hazel tree.
• A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.

Related

Similar words

• hazelnut

Narrower meaning words

• cobnut (usually the common hazel (Corylus avellana) which grows in the UK and Europe)

Origin

• Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.