Alligator-pear

  • 41avocado — 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… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 42P. americana — may refer to: Paradelphomyia americana, a crane fly species in the genus Paradelphomyia Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach, palmetto bug or waterbug, an insect species native to the Southern United States Persea americana, the avocado …

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  • 43berry — Synonyms and related words: Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, acorn, akee, alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, avocado, banana, bearberry, bilberry, bird seed, blackberry, cacao, candleberry, canistel, cantaloupe, capulin, casaba,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 44ebony — Synonyms and related words: acacia, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, atramentous, avocado, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bay, bayberry, beamless, beech, beechwood, betel palm, birch, black,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 45fruit — Synonyms and related words: Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, acorn, advantages, aftermath, akee, alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, artifact, auntie, avocado, banana, bear, bear fruit, bearberry, bearing, benefits, berry, bi guy,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 46oak — Synonyms and related words: Gibraltar, acacia, adamant, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, avocado, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bay, bayberry, beech, beechwood, betel palm, birch, bone,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 47orange — Synonyms and related words: Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, akee, alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, avocado, banana, bearberry, berry, bilberry, blackberry, cacao, candleberry, canistel, cantaloupe, capulin, casaba, checkerberry,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 48tree — Synonyms and related words: Stammbaum, acacia, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, avocado, ax, balsa, balsam, banyan, bare pole, basswood, bay, bayberry, beech, betel palm, birch, block, bottle up,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 49avocado — [17] Anyone tucking into an avocado could well be taken aback to learn that in the South American Indian language from which the word originally came, it meant literally ‘testicle’. The Nahuatl Indians named the fruit ahuacatl ‘testicle’ on… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50avocado — n.; (also avigato, avocato) Alligator pear, Persea gratissima, avocado pear …

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