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Avocado

noun

(pl. avocados)

A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed. Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear.

Tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits. Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana.

adjective

Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado.

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"Avocado" Quotes from Famous Books

... market square, in the midst of the town, was covered with articles of traffic. The venders were chiefly negro women, who exposed for sale immense quantities of yams, tomatoes, cassava bread, sugar-cane, plantains, water-cresses, oranges, bananas, avocado pears, etc., with fancy articles of ...

— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... the Bilimbi and Guava, the latter of which is naturalised in the jungle around every cottage, are almost the only fruits of the country; but the Pine-apple, the Mango, the Avocado-pear, the Custard-apple, the Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum), the Fig, the Granadilla, and a number of other exotics, are successfully reared in the gardens of the wealthier inhabitants of the towns and villages; and within the last few years the peerless Mangustin ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent