avocado
- 1A large green fruit with soft, buttery flesh and one big seed inside.
Like a pear with smooth, buttery flesh and one big seed inside.
She sliced a ripe avocado and spread it on her toast.
Avocados taste rich and creamy when they are fully ripe.
- 2A tropical tree that grows the green fruit of the same name.
Like an apple tree, but it grows avocados instead of apples.
They planted an avocado in the backyard for shade and fruit.
The avocado near the fence finally started bearing fruit this year.
- 3A dull green-yellow color, like the skin of the green fruit.
Like the soft green color of a ripe pear's skin.
She chose avocado for the kitchen cabinets.
The vintage car was painted a glossy avocado.
- 4Having a dull, yellowish-green color, like the fruit's skin.
Like the green-yellow color of the fruit's skin.
He bought an avocado jacket on sale.
The old curtains had faded to an avocado shade.
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Origin
It came from Latin American Spanish 'avocado', from an older word 'aguacate', which came from the Nahuatl word 'āhuacatl' meaning avocado.