avocado

av·o·ca·do  (v-käd, äv-)

n. pl. av·o·ca·dos

1.

a. A tropical American tree (Persea americana) having oval or pear-shaped fruit with leathery skin, yellowish-green flesh, and a large seed.

b. The edible fruit of this tree. Also called alligator pear, avocado pear.

2. A dull green.

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[American Spanish, alteration (influenced by obsolete Spanish avocado, lawyer) of Nahuatl ahuacatl.]

Word History: The history of avocado takes us back to the Aztecs and their language, Nahuatl, which contained the word ahuacatl meaning both "fruit of the avocado tree" and "testicle." The word ahuacatl was compounded with others, as in ahuacamolli, meaning "avocado soup or sauce," from which the Spanish-Mexican word guacamole derives. In trying to pronounce ahuacatl, the Spanish who found the fruit and its Nahuatl name in Mexico came up with aguacate, but other Spanish speakers substituted the form avocado for the Nahuatl word because ahuacatl sounded like the early Spanish word avocado (now abogado), meaning "lawyer." In borrowing the Spanish avocado, first recorded in English in 1697 in the compound avogato pear (with a spelling that probably reflects Spanish pronunciation), we have lost some traces of the more interesting Nahuatl word.

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avocado

Noun

pl -dos a pear-shaped tropical fruit with a leathery green skin and greenish-yellow flesh [Spanish aguacate]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	avocado - a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh avocado tree, Persea Americana, avocado - tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
	2.	avocado - tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits avocado tree, Persea Americana aguacate, alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear - a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed genus Persea, Persea - avocado fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
Adj.	1.	avocado - of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

Translations

avocado [ævəˈkɑːdəu] n (BRIT) (also: avocado pear) → aguacate m; palta (LAM)

avocado [ævəˈkɑːdəu] n (Brit) (also: avocado pear) → avocat m

avocado [ævəˈkɑːdəu] (Brit) n (also: avocado pear) → Avocado f

avocado [ævəˈkɑːdəu] n (BRIT) (also: avocado pear) → avocado m inv

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avocado

n avocado [ӕvəˈkaːdəu]

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