different between cobnut vs hazelnut

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?b?n?t/

Noun

cobnut (plural cobnuts)

1. The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
2. A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
3. A game played by children with nuts.

See also

• filbert (usually the American hazel, Corylus americana or Corylus maxima, which is common in Oregon)

English

Alternative forms

• hazel nut

Etymology

Equivalent to hazel +? nut; from Middle English haselnote, from Old English hæselhnutu (“hazelnut”). Cognate with West Frisian hazzenút (“hazelnut”), Saterland Frisian Hoaselnuute (“hazelnut”), Dutch hazelnoot, German Haselnuss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?z?ln?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

hazelnut (plural hazelnuts)

1. The fruit of the hazel tree.

Synonyms

• cob, cobnut (usually the common hazel (Corylus avellana) which grows in the UK and Europe; filbert (usually the American hazel (Corylus americana or Corylus maxima) which is common in Oregon.)

Derived terms

• American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
• beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
• California hazelnut (Corylus cornuta subsp. californica)
• Chilean hazelnut (Gevuina avellana)
• hazelnut aphid (Corylobium avellanae)
• hazelnut gall midge (Mikomyia coryli)
• hazelnut mite (Tetranycopsis horridus)
• Siberian hazelnut (Corylus heterophylla)

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