hazelnut
Americannoun
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hazelnuts
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of hazelnut
before 900; Middle English haselnote, Old English hæselhnutu. See hazel, nut
Vocabulary lists containing hazelnut
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Her order contained hazelnut residue because the blender had not been washed after a Kinder Bueno milkshake was made in it beforehand, an inquest concluded on Thursday.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
A kiss of hazelnut as a finishing touch too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Proponents say French sugar beet, apple and hazelnut farmers need the insecticides -- forbidden in France since 2018 and 2019 respectively -- to help them compete with their European counterparts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some 5,000 miles from Wall Street, Matarazzo was in the province of Campania with his grandparents, figuring out his life on a hazelnut farm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
He liked best the dark chocolate hazelnut truffles, and didn’t seem to mind the slight bitterness of the hard chocolate shell.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
"Once the gold mine opens, we won't be able to grow hazelnuts here any more," says Omer Aydin, a nut producer and exporter.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
During a postwar cocoa shortage in the 1940s, an Italian pastry chef named Pietro Ferrero had the genius idea to combine the scarce resource with an ingredient his town had in abundance: hazelnuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
"The food product was submitted to the public analyst, where the presence of hazelnuts was confirmed."
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
Garnish with chopped hazelnuts, a smattering of minced chives and some of the chopped fennel fronds.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
Children played games, rolling hazelnuts on the sidewalks.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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