- avocado
- avo·ca·do
English syllables. 2014.
avocado
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Avocado — Avocado … Deutsch Wörterbuch
Avocado — Frucht am Baum Systematik Klasse: Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida) Magnoliids … Deutsch Wikipedia
avocado — AVOCÁDO s.n. Fruct exotic, comestibil, de mare valoare nutritivă, având formă de pară, de culoare verde închis, cu un sâmbure mare cât o nucă la mijloc. Tăiat în jumătăţi de a lungul, se obţin un fel de barchete ce pot fi umplute cu diverse… … Dicționar Român
Avocado — Sf (die eßbare Frucht eines südamerikanischen Baumes) per. Wortschatz exot. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus gleichbedeutend älterem span. avocado m. (d.h. Advokat, heute abogado), einer volksetymologischen Umbenennung von Nahuatl ahuacatl, aus … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
avocado — (n.) 1763, from Sp. avocado, altered (by folk etymology influence of earlier Sp. avocado lawyer, from same Latin source as ADVOCATE (Cf. advocate) (n.)) from earlier aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuakatl avocado, testicle. So called for its shape. As a … Etymology dictionary
avocado — ☆ avocado [av΄ə kä′dō, ä΄vəkä′dō ] n. pl. avocados [altered (infl. by earlier Sp avocado, now abogado, advocate) < MexSp aguacate < Nahuatl a:wakaλ, avocado, lit., testicle; so named from its shape] 1. a widespread, thick skinned, pear… … English World dictionary
Avocado — Av o*ca do, n. [Corrupted from the Mexican ahuacatl: cf. Sp. aguacate, F. aguacat[ e], avocat, G. avogadobaum.] The pulpy fruit of {Persea gratissima}, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; called also… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
avocado — avocado. (Quizá del caribe aohuicate o avoka). m. Filip. aguacate (ǁ árbol). || 2. Filip. aguacate (ǁ fruto) … Enciclopedia Universal
avocado — (Quizá del caribe aohuicate o avoka). 1. m. Filip. aguacate (ǁ árbol). 2. Filip. aguacate (ǁ fruto) … Diccionario de la lengua española
avocado — ► NOUN (pl. avocados) ▪ a pear shaped fruit with a rough skin, pale green flesh, and a large stone. ORIGIN Spanish, from Nahuatl … English terms dictionary
Avocado — taxobox name = Alvacodo image caption = Avocado fruit and foliage, Huntington Library, California regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Magnoliids ordo = Laurales familia = Lauraceae genus = Persea species = P.… … Wikipedia
