/ab vil'ee euhn, -vil"yeuhn, ab'euh vil"-/ , adj.
of, pertaining to, or typical of an early Lower Paleolithic industry of the middle Pleistocene Epoch in Europe, characterized by the manufacture of large flakes and hand axes; Chellean.
Also, Abbevillean .
[ abbevillien (1932); see ABBEVILLE, -IAN ]