a cultivated hazel tree that bears edible oval nuts 榛(子)树
Genus Corylus, family Betulaceae: several species, in particular the Kentish cob (Corylus maxima) 榛属,桦木科:数种,尤指马氏榛 ■the nut of this tree 榛子。 亦称 cob
(亦作 filbert brush)a brush with bristles forming a flattened oval head, used in oil painting (油画用的扁平椭圆头)榛形毛笔
语源
Middle English fylberd, from Anglo-Norman French philbert, dialect French noix de filbert (so named because it is ripe about 20 August, the feast day of St Philibert)