avocado tree
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- noun
- /əˈvɑːkɑːdoʊ triː/
:
árbol de aguacate
- In our garden, there is a beautiful avocado tree that produces fruit every summer.
- avocado tree in my backyard
Examples
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The avocado tree had low branches swooping to the ground where we rode horses, then there was the forest of okra bushes where we played cowboy and Indian, and the cigarette bushes near where we played shop.
Fiction book (1994) -
I would like to plant an avocado tree, but I fear that it will be attacked as well.
Blog text (29) -
Get our own little lime tree, avocado tree.
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And Aaron's avocado tree, look at that.
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Under the avocado tree, if I faced our front door, the Momms lived on our left.
Academic text (2001) -
He looked at the big avocado tree in the far corner of the yard.
Fiction book (1995) -
California farmers opted to cut down hundreds of healthy avocado trees to their stumps to prevent them from dying off as a result of water shortages.
Blog text (5) -
Once, when he was visiting his aunt and uncle in Escondido, he and Wanda went out into a grove of avocado trees where she took off her underpants for him.
Fiction book (1995) -
Agricultural land abandonment and secondary regrowth, expansion of avocado tree plantations, and the loss and degradation of old forests are the main categories of change (see figure 2).
Academic text (2009) -
Nora curled up in the bamboo swing beneath the avocado tree; she can be still, still, but the swing sways on its long rope, a tiny repeated motion that makes her nauseous.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A tropical tree grown for its large green fruit with a single seed
A tropical tree that grows large green fruits called avocados
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tree that bears avocados' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'avocado' (the fruit/tree species) with 'tree' (a perennial plant). This noun + noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Avocado tree gets its name from the fruit avocado, a word that may come from an old Mexican language where people thought the fruit looked like a small rounded body part. That's why avocado tree simply means 'a tree that grows avocados'.