avocado

Borrowed from American Spanish avocado, from aguacate, folk-etymologized as abogado (“lawyer”). Aguacate comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA^(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

avocado (plural avocados or avocadoes)

1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.

   Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, abacate

2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the meat of an avocado.

   avocado colour:  

(avocado fruit):

• avocado pear
• alligator pear
• butter fruit
• butter pear

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

• → Irish: abhacád

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

• “Avocado” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.

• avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• avocado at USDA Plants database
• cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

• avokado

From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

• IPA^(key): /avokaːdo/, [avoˈkʰæːd̥o]

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

1. avocado

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.voːˈkaː.doː/

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• Hyphenation: avo‧ca‧do

avocado m (plural avocado's)

1. avocado, alligator pear

• avocadoboom

• → Indonesian: avokad
• → Sranan Tongo: afkati

• Rhymes: -ado

avocado m (invariable)

1. avocado

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

• IPA^(key): /aboˈkado/, [aβoˈkaðo]
• Homophone: abocado

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

• → Danish: avocado, avokado
• → English: avocado
  • → Irish: abhacád
• → Faroese: avokado
• → French: avocat (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Avocado
• → Serbo-Croatian: avokádo
• → Turkish: avokado

avocado m (feminine singular avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of avocar.

• “avocado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.