Italian greyhound | a toy dog developed from the greyhound |
Italian bee | yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
cocozelle Italian vegetable marrow | squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow |
Italian honeysuckle Italian woodbine Lonicera caprifolium | deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls |
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 |
Italian | of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language, Italian cooking |