avellane
See also: avellané
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Italian avellana (“filbert”), from Latin Avella or Abella, a city of Campania.
Adjective edit
avellane (not comparable)
Noun edit
avellane (plural avellanes)
- (heraldry) An unhusked hazel filbert.
- 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald:
- Cross double fruitagée, or a mascle with four fruitages, or avellanes, joined to the points thereof in cross. See Pl. 5, fig. 19.
References edit
- “avellane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avellane”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Italian edit
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avellane f
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Verb edit
avellane
- inflection of avellanar: