avocado

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
2. (countable, uncountable) The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. (uncountable) A dark chartreuse color, like the color of the skin of an avocado.

Adj

Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Synonyms

alligator pear

avocado pear

avocado tree

aguacate

Persea Americana

marrow

butter pear

midshipman's butter

butter-fruit

Translations

Avocado

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aguacate

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avocat

avocado

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αβοκάντο

avocatier

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avocado

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palta

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abacate

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alvocat

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Persea americana

palto

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abacateiro

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Persea gratissima

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.
The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.