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語源

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

形容詞

avellane (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In the form of four unhusked filberts.

   an avellane cross

名詞

avellane (plural avellanes)

1. (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.

参照

• “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.