CHILEAN TERMS
Aji: small red peppers, highly aromatic, grown in the northerly regions; used extensively in Chilean cooking.
Alerce: a tall conifer of South Chile; fine lumber. Alerzal, a wood of alerce trees.
Algarroba: the sweet pod of the minosa-like Algarrobo tree (North).
Algarrobo: (al carob, Arabic), term applied by Spanish to small thorny tree bearing pods used as cattle fodder (North).
Antofagastino: native of Antofagasta.
Arenal: sand desert, sand-laden wind.
Atacameño: native of Atacama.
Avellano: small tree (Central and South) yielding the avellana, a soft-shelled nut resembling the hazel.