avocado-pear
21Pear (disambiguation) — Pear is trees of the genus Pyrus and the fruit of that tree, edible in some species Pear may refer to: Avocado, a fruit that is referred to as pear in certain countries Pear shaped, a colloquial term for when things go wrong Pear or Pears may… …
22avocado — AVOCÁDO s.n. Fruct exotic, comestibil, de mare valoare nutritivă, având formă de pară, de culoare verde închis, cu un sâmbure mare cât o nucă la mijloc. Tăiat în jumătăţi de a lungul, se obţin un fel de barchete ce pot fi umplute cu diverse… …
23avocado — (n.) 1763, from Sp. avocado, altered (by folk etymology influence of earlier Sp. avocado lawyer, from same Latin source as ADVOCATE (Cf. advocate) (n.)) from earlier aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuakatl avocado, testicle. So called for its shape. As a …
24avocado — ► NOUN (pl. avocados) ▪ a pear shaped fruit with a rough skin, pale green flesh, and a large stone. ORIGIN Spanish, from Nahuatl …
25avocado — /av euh kah doh, ah veuh /, n., pl. avocados. 1. Also called alligator pear. a large, usually pear shaped fruit having green to blackish skin, a single large seed, and soft, light green pulp, borne by the tropical American tree Persea americana… …
26avocado — [17] Anyone tucking into an avocado could well be taken aback to learn that in the South American Indian language from which the word originally came, it meant literally ‘testicle’. The Nahuatl Indians named the fruit ahuacatl ‘testicle’ on… …
27alligator pear — Avocado Av o*ca do, n. [Corrupted from the Mexican ahuacatl: cf. Sp. aguacate, F. aguacat[ e], avocat, G. avogadobaum.] The pulpy fruit of {Persea gratissima}, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; called… …
28avocado — [[t]æ̱vəkɑ͟ːdoʊ[/t]] avocados N VAR Avocados are pear shaped vegetables, with hard skins and large stones, which are usually eaten raw. They are sometimes called avocado pears in British English. The ham is delicious with avocado …
29avocado — [17] Anyone tucking into an avocado could well be taken aback to learn that in the South American Indian language from which the word originally came, it meant literally ‘testicle’. The Nahuatl Indians named the fruit ahuacatl ‘testicle’ on… …
30avocado — [ˌavə kα:dəʊ] noun (plural avocados) 1》 a pear shaped fruit with a tough skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone. 2》 the tropical evergreen tree which bears avocados. [Persea americana.] 3》 a light green colour like that of an avocado s …
