avocado
The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
Other meanings
The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
A dark chartreuse color, like the color of the skin of an avocado.
A kind of
- edible fruit
Related words
- avocadoey
- avolatte
- crabocado
- avocadoless
- avocadolike
- avocado hand
- avocado pear
- avocado toast
- Hass avocado
- avocado latte
- avocado oil
- devil's avocado
Example sentences
Word history
From Spanish "avocado".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “avocado” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.