avellane

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

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

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics In the form of four unhusked filberts.

noun

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

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics 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. 19.1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald:

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