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(fil′bərt) noun
1. The edible nut of the European or the Oriental hazel (Corylus avellana); and also, sometimes, of the American hazel (C. americana and C. cornuta).
2. The bushy shrub or small tree that bears the nut. [Earlier filbert nut <dial. F noix de filbert nut of Philibert, after St. Philibert, near whose feast (Aug. 22) these nuts ripen]
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