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verdello

verdello noun: a light green variety of summer lemon made from Sicily, similar to a lime.

Noun (1)

verdello (plural verdelli or verdellos)

  1. a light green variety of summer lemon made from Sicily, similar to a lime

Noun (2) capitalized: Verdello

Verdello (countable and uncountable, plural Verdellos)

  1. An Italian grapevine variety that is grown mostly in the Umbria region of central Italy.
    • Thus when sampling Verdello grapevines, the likelihood of picking up a vine that really isn't Verdello is high, and the skill of the ampelographer becomes of paramount importance.2014, Ian D'Agata, Native Wine Grapes of Italy, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21

Forms of verdello

pluralverdelli
pluralverdellos
pluralVerdellos

Origin of verdello

Borrowed from Italian verdello.

Borrowed from Italian verdello, from the dark green color of its berries.

Questions about verdello

What does verdello mean?
Verdello means a light green variety of summer lemon made from Sicily, similar to a lime.
What part of speech is verdello?
Verdello is a noun.
What is the plural of verdello?
The plural of verdello is verdelli.

Words near verdello in the dictionary

  1. Verdelho
  2. Verdelhos
  3. verdelite
  4. Verdell
  5. verdelli
  6. verdello
  7. Verdells
  8. Verden
  9. verderer
  10. verderers
  11. verderership

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Adapted from Wiktionary: verdello (page history and authors); Verdello (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.

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