avellane

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See also: avellané

English

A cross avellane.

Alternative forms

avellan

Etymology

From Italian avellana (“filbert”), from Latin Avella or Abella, a city of Campania.

Adjective

avellane (not comparable)

(heraldry) In the form of four unhusked filberts.
an avellane cross

Noun

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

“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, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Italian

Noun

avellane f

plural of avellana

Spanish

Verb

avellane

inflection of avellanar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

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