Word.ws English Dictionary

avellano

avellano noun: synonym of Chilean hazelnut (“Gevuina avellana”).

Noun

avellano

  1. Synonym of Chilean hazelnut (“Gevuina avellana”).
    • The avellano and some other trees are readily injured by frost if grown alone, but are common enough amid the forest, where the general foliage acts as a protection.1899, William Anderson Smith, Temperate Chile: A Progressive Spain, page 245

Synonyms of avellano

Origin of avellano

Italian avellano

Questions about avellano

What does avellano mean?
Avellano means synonym of Chilean hazelnut (“Gevuina avellana”).
What part of speech is avellano?
Avellano is a noun.

Words near avellano in the dictionary

  1. avellane
  2. Avellaneda
  3. Avellanedas
  4. avellaneous
  5. avellanes
  6. avellano
  7. Avellas
  8. avelled
  9. avelling
  10. Avellino
  11. Avellis syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: avellano (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “avellano.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/avellano. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.