Italian greyhound | a toy dog developed from the greyhound |
Italian bee | yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits |
almond moth fig moth Cadra cautella | a moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored products of vegetable origin |
liqueur glass | a small glass for serving a small amount of liqueur (typically after dinner) |
Petrarchan sonnet Italian sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |
Italian | the Romance language spoken in Italy |
Old Italian | the Italian language up to the middle of the th century |
almond cookie almond crescent | very rich cookie containing ground almonds, usually crescent-shaped |
Italian bread | unsweetened yeastaised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends |
f bomber grinder hero hero sandwich hoagie hoagy Cuban sandwich Italian sandwich poor boy sub submarine submarine sandwich torpedo wedge zep | a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments), different names are used in different sections of the United States |
almond | oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree |
Jordan almond | an almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored |
almond extract | flavoring made from almonds macerated in alcohol |
Italian dressing | a vinaigrette with garlic and herbs: oregano and basil and dill |
risotto Italian rice | rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese |
sweet vermouth Italian vermouth | sweet dark amber variety |
liqueur cordial | strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal |
amaretto | an Italian almond liqueur |
coffee liqueur | coffee-flavored liqueur |
orange liqueur | liqueur flavored with orange |
maraschino maraschino liqueur | distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries |
Italian Peninsula | a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea |
Italy Italian Republic Italia | a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula, was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the th century BC and the th century AD |
Italian region | Italy is divided intoregions for administrative purposes |
Rome Roma Eternal City Italian capital capital of Italy | capital and largest city of Italy, on the Tiber, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire |
Italian | a native or inhabitant of Italy |
Italian cypress Mediterranean cypress Cupressus sempervirens | tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches |
crimson clover Italian clover Trifolium incarnatum | southern European annual with spiky heads of crimson flower, extensively cultivated in United States for forage |
Italian ryegrass Italian rye Lolium multiflorum | European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure |
foxtail millet Italian millet Hungarian grass Setaria italica | coarse droughtesistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
cocozelle Italian vegetable marrow | squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow |
almond tree | any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts |
almond sweet almond Prunus dulcis Prunus amygdalus Amygdalus communis | small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull, cultivated in southern Australia and California |
bitter almond Prunus dulcis amara Amygdalus communis amara | almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes |
almond oil expressed almond oil sweet almond oil | pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds |
bitter almond oil | pale yellow essential oil obtained from bitter almonds by distillation from almond cake or meal |
jordan almond | variety of large almond from Malaga, Spain, used in confectionery |
dwarf flowering almond Prunus glandulosa | small Chinese shrub with smooth unfurrowed dark red fruit grown especially for its red or pink or white flowers |
flowering almond oriental bush cherry Prunus japonica | woody oriental plant with smooth unfurrowed red fruit grown especially for its white or pale pink blossoms |
Russian almond dwarf Russian almond Prunus tenella | Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers |
flowering almond Prunus triloba | deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers |
Italian honeysuckle Italian woodbine Lonicera caprifolium | deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls |
peachleaf willow peach-leaved willow almond-leaves willow Salix amygdaloides | willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees |
almond willow black Hollander Salix triandra Salix amygdalina | Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry |
Italian parsley flat-leaf parsley Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum | a variety of parsley having flat leaves |
Italian monetary unit | monetary unit in Italy |
lira Italian lira | formerly the basic unit of money in Italy, equal to centesimi |
Italian Renaissance | the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance |
Italian-speaking | able to communicate in Italian |