Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - avocado
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(avocados) Note: in BRIT, also use 'avocado pear' Avocados are pear-shaped vegetables, with hard skins and large stones, which are usually eaten raw. N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural -dos; also -does) Etymology: modification of Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuacatl ~, testicle Date: 1697 1. a pulpy green- to purple-skinned nutty-flavored fruit of any of various tropical American trees (genus Persea especially P. americana) of the laurel family; also a tree bearing ~s 2. a light yellowish green ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -os) 1 (in full avocado pear) a pear-shaped fruit with rough leathery skin, a smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone. 2 the tropical evergreen tree, Persea americana, native to Central America, bearing this fruit. Also called alligator pear. 3 the light green colour of the flesh of this fruit. Etymology: Sp., = advocate (substituted for Aztec ahuacatl) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1763, from Sp. avocado, altered (by folk etymology influence of avocado "lawyer," from same L. source as advocate) from earlier aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuakatl "testicle." So called for its shape. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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