| 单词 | avocado |
| 释义 | avocado (once / 17230 pages) nadj An avocado is a fruit with a thick green skin and mild, creamy flesh. If you've ever eaten guacamole, you've tasted avocado. It might seem strange that an avocado is a fruit, because it's not sweet. Avocados have to be cut open before you eat them, and the hard pit in the middle needs to be removed. The inside of an avocado is firm but soft, a pale green shade. The word avocado is Spanish, from aguacate, and rooted in a Proto-Aztecan word, *pawa, that also meant avocado. WORD FAMILYavocado: avocados USAGE EXAMPLESOne orange and avocado vendor offered to buy them up for 80 bolivars. Reuters(Dec 16, 2016) Combine the chickpeas, avocado, oil and lemon juice in a medium bowl. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) Garlic, she said, is a rarity, while avocado, a treat she enjoyed once in a while, is all but absent from her table. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1n a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed Syn|Hyper aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear edible fruit edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh 2n tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits Syn|Hyper Persea Americana, avocado tree fruit tree tree bearing edible fruit 3adj of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado Syn chromatic being or having or characterized by hue |
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