I.a town in Campania, near Nolu, abounding in fruit-trees and nuts, now Avella, Sil. 8, 545: “malifera,” Verg. A. 7, 740. —Hence, Abellāna nux or Avellana, also Abellina, the filbert, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 88; and Abellani , the inhabitants of Abella, Just. 20, 1.
Ăbella , ae, f.,