A round brown hard-shelled nut which is the fruit of the hazel, esp. Corylus avellana.

A filbert- or hazel-nut. (See also quot. 1610.)

The fruit or nut of the cultivated hazel (Corylus avellana).

A walnut; but in an early vocabulary applied to the filbert.

A large nut of stout short ovate shape, borne by a cultivated variety of the hazel; also the tree. Also attributive, as in cob-nut bush.

Applied to various rounded solid bodies. In some of these cobyl, cobble occurs in earlier use. = cob-nut, n. (in 15th cent. cobyll-nut).

The fruit of the hazel; a hazelnut; = hazelnut, n. 1.

a hazelnut (from the Pontic region).

the hazel-nut.

Used attributively in Barcelona nut or as short for this.

Hazelnuts as an ingredient. Frequently attributive in the names of confectionery or desserts.