avocado
Other forms: avocados
An avocado is a fruit with a thick green skin and mild, creamy flesh. If you've ever eaten guacamole, you've tasted avocado.
It might seem strange that an avocado is a fruit, because it's not sweet. Avocados have to be cut open before you eat them, and the hard pit in the middle needs to be removed. The inside of an avocado is firm but soft, a pale green shade. The word avocado is Spanish, from aguacate, and rooted in a Proto-Aztecan word, *pawa, that also meant avocado.
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a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seedsynonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado peartype of:edible fruitedible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
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tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruitssynonyms: Persea Americana, avocado treetype of:fruit treetree bearing edible fruit
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of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocadosynonyms:chromaticbeing, having, or characterized by hue
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