avellane

Etymology

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

adj

  1. 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.”