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avellanillo: Lomatia dentata, a Chilean tree.
avellano: hazel tree (genus Corylus); Gevuinaa avellana, a Chilean tree.
avellano turco: Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna)
avemaría: Hail Mary; Angelus; Hail Mary (act done in desperation with little chance of success)
avena: oat; oats; oatmeal porridge
avenamiento: drainage
avenar: to drain
avenate: gruel
avenencia: agreement, deal
avenerado: having shell-shaped decorations
avenida: avenue; flood
avenido: getting on in a certain manner
avenimiento: agreement
avenina: avenin
avenir: to reconcile; to agree, accept; to match; to happen
aventado: daring
aventadora: thresher
aventajadamente: advantageously
aventajado: outstanding; stand-out; star
aventajar: to surpass
aventamiento: winnowing
aventar: to blow, winnow; to throw, chuck; to blow away; to escape, to get out
aventi: adventure
aventura: adventure; affair, fling (an adulterous relationship)
aventurado: risqué; bold
aventurar: to risk; to venture, hazard (an opinion)
aventurerismo: adventurism
aventurero: adventurous, adventuresome
aventurero: adventurer
aventurilla: diminutive of aventura; vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus)
aventurismo: adventurism
aventón: ride, lift; push
aver: obsolete spelling of haber
avergonzado: embarrassed, ashamed
avergonzar: to shame; to embarrass; to embarrass oneself, be ashamed
averiar: to break (break down); to damage; to break down
averiguable: verifiable
averiguación: inquiry, inquest
averiguar: to find out, figure out, work out, determine; to dig up, to investigate; to argue
avermectina: avermectin
averno: underworld, hell
averroísmo: Averroism
averroísta: Averroist
aversivo: aversive
aversión: aversion
avería: breakdown (a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed)
averío: a group of birds
avestruz: ostrich
avestruz de América: rhea
avetorillo: bittern
avetorillo común: little bittern
avetoro: bittern (bird)
avetoro mínimo: The least bittern.
avezado: seasoned; experienced
avezar: to accustom, inure, familiarize
avezón: dill
aviación: aviation
aviación civil: civil aviation
aviador: aviator
aviano: avian