avellane

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adjectiveavellane (not comparable)

alternative avellan

not comparablegovernmentIn the form of four unhusked filberts.
an avellane cross

nounavellane (plural avellanes)

plural avellanes · alternative avellan

governmentAn unhusked hazel filbert.
Cross double fruitagée, or a mascle with four fruitages, or avellanes, joined to the points thereof in cross. See Pl. 5, fig. 19.
1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald

adjectivepertaining to filberts or hazelnuts

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

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