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Start your day with the cinnamon roll French toast with Oregon hazelnuts and marionberry butter, or settle in for dinner with offerings like local seafood or Oregon beef on the menu.—Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026 The team tested the system on strawberries, blueberries, bananas, walnuts, hazelnuts, cashews, and peanuts.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2026 There’s an entire salad bowl of chocolate mousse, perfectly bitter and rich, and a Paris-Brest the circumference of a tricycle wheel, with enormous puffs of hazelnut mousse and a dripping seam of blackberry jam.—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 And nuts — almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts — along with vegetables like artichokes, broccoli and eggplant round out a diet where fiber shows up naturally at breakfast, lunch and dinner.—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for hazelnut
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of hazelnut was
before the 12th century