An avocado is a pear-shaped fruit with green or black skin, soft creamy flesh, and a large seed in the middle. It is often eaten in salads, on toast, or as guacamole.
From Spanish “aguacate,” from Nahuatl (Aztec language) “āhuacatl,” which also meant “testicle,” likely because of the shape. English reshaped the word to look more like “avogato” or “avogado,” older words for “lawyer,” which also influenced “alligator pear.”
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