avellane

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Scrabble points
11
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15
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8

Definition of avellane

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)In the form of four unhusked filberts.
    “an avellane cross”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)In the form of four unhusked filberts.
    “an avellane cross”

noun

  1. An 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.”

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Etymology

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

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