avocado
5
1.5
- noun
- /əˈvɑːkəˌdoʊ/
:
árbol de aguacate
- Lenny owns an avocado farm.
- avocado groves
- avocado production
Yes, you can grow lemon, avocado, olive or fig trees.
- Yes, you can grow lemon, avocado, olive or fig trees.
- Mangoes are some of the most heavy nitrogen feeding plants besides probably like avocados, they need a ton of nitrogen.
- So you're not really going to have any luck trying to grow these from seeds with mangoes and the classic avocado.
Examples
-
Her destination was an old church whose property included a steep slope planted heavily with avocado trees.
Fiction book (1993) -
Drifts of avocado leaves blanket the garage in the southwest corner.
Fiction book (1992) -
The video showed how many avocado trees are on that property.
Blog text (25) -
We sat in the living room, next to the huge avocado plants.
Fiction book (1992) -
Smaller animals couldn't swallow the avocado's huge seed, but the sloths could, and they spread avocado trees far and wide.
-
We produce grapevines, almond trees, pistachio trees, walnuts, avocados and a few other minor crops.
-
Beyond the sun-baked mud-brick houses were fields of tall grass, rolling hills, and orchards of avocado, apricot, olive, and fig trees.
Fiction book (2002) -
What followed our arrival in Hawaii were breezes perfumed by fragrant tropical flowers, tasty avocados falling from a tree in our front yard, and surf pounding the sands of Diamond Head.
Academic text (2001) -
For breakfast, she spread avocado on her toast and added a pinch of salt.
-
The chef prepared a delicious salad with slices of ripe avocado and cherry tomatoes.
Synonyms
1
1.0
A tropical tree that grows large green fruit called avocado
A tropical tree that grows large green fruits called avocados
Compounds
- Literature
1
5.8
A term for small things people buy that are not necessary and blamed for bigger money problems
- Archaic
A soft fruit with rough green or dark skin, yellow-green flesh, and a large seed in the middle
Surface Forms
Etymology
Avocado for the tree comes from the same source as the fruit name, the Nahuatl āhuacatl and Spanish aguacate, because people named the tree after the fruit it gives. That's why the leafy tree that produces these fruits is also called an avocado.