How is the Spanish word “avellana” connected to the sole recorded hurricane, with a Category Four designation, to make landfall as far north as the “Old North State?”

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Hazel. Avellana is the Spanish word for the Common Hazel. The Common Hazel (Corylus AVELLANA) is a species of hazel native to Europe and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Iberia, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, north to central Scandinavia, and east to the central Ural Mountains, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelnut "Hurricane Hazel was the worst hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the worst hurricanes of the 20th century. Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States just south of Wilmington, North Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane. Nineteen people were killed in North Carolina, and 81 people were killed when it subsequently hit Toronto, Ontario. It is the strongest hurricane ever recorded to strike so far inland." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hazel Jul 02 08, 4:49 AM