avocado

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  1. noun A tropical American tree (Persea americana) having oval or pear-shaped fruit with leathery skin, yellowish-green flesh, and a large seed.
  2. noun The edible fruit of this tree. Also called alligator pear, avocado pear.
  3. noun A dull green.
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  • "I still find it difficult to believe," writes Richard Restak, a practicing neurologist and author of a number of books about the brain, "that this three-pound mass of protoplasm with the consistency of an overripe avocado is the seat of who I am, of who we all are." —  Omni: October 1993
  • There's a green-and-red striped smoothie for Christmas morning that combines strawberries and avocado, a reduced-fat version of the —  The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
  • A lot of the upscale hair products available in hair boutiques are made with natural ingredients such as avocado, olive oil, berries, citrus fruits, and green tea-all available in food sections in supermarkets for a fraction of the price of hair products. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • (I used two and shredded them) 1 avocado -- peel, seed & cube —  Raising Five
  • Dotting the plate with an avocado-green apple puree and tangle of balsamic-pickled onions wasn't exactly what I had in mind. —  WordPress.com News
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  1. American Spanish, alteration (influenced by obsolete Spanish avocado, lawyer) of Nahuatl ahuacatl.

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  1. Corrupted from Mexican name.
 

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