avocado

noun (plural avocados)

• 1 (British also avocado pear) a pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin and smooth, oily edible flesh: a salad of avocados and oranges [mass noun]:serve with slices of avocadoAlso called alligator pear.
• [mass noun] a light green colour like that of the flesh of avocados.

• 2the tropical evergreen tree which bears the avocado fruit, native to Central America and widely cultivated elsewhere.

  • Persea americana, family Lauraceae