aguacate

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- The avocado; (also) the tropical evergreen tree, Persea americana, which bears this fruit (now rare).


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Origin:
mid 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Johnson (d. 1644), apothecary and soldier. From Spanish aguacate from Nahuatl ahuacatl




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