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Meanings of butter pear in English

The fruit of an avocado tree (Persea americana).

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        Examples for "avocado"
        Examples for "avocado"
        1
        What do you think of when you hear the words 'avocado toast'?
        Independent.ie
        2
        The avocado has the highest protein and oil content of any fruit.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Industry watchers assured British avocado connoisseurs there was no need to panic.
        The Guardian
        4
        It takes five years between planting and establishing a commercial avocado crop.
        News.com.au
        5
        Add Parmesan, remaining olive oil, avocado oil and lemon juice to taste.
        Radio NZ
        1
        Small, sweeter than the alligator pear, the sweet red fruit of the yucca.
        Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
        2
        Every hut is surrounded with enormous trees of persea,* (* Laurus persea ( alligator pear).)
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        3
        Probably the man who would order "stewed tripe Spanish" wouldn't touch an alligator pear salad.
        Vignettes of San Francisco
        4
        She not only came for dinner with us on Sunday, but made the dressing for my alligator pear salad.
        A Fool and His Money
        5
        Here we are in the land of Smithfield hams and spoon-bread and we ate canned lobster for lunch, and alligator pear salad.
        The Trumpeter Swan
        1
        Other fruit trees, as the orange, the guava, pomegranate, avocado pear, golden apple, water lemon, soursop, etc.
        Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawse...
        2
        While driving in my avenue gate I spotted a very small hedgehog about the size of an avocado pear.
        The Irish Times
        3
        I took the Bentley key off Charlie's ring and exchanged it for an eight-year-old Cadillac the color of an old avocado pear.
        Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
        4
        Grated carrot and jam was one of the combinations that would crop up once in a while, or avocado pear and peanut butter.
        The power of one
        5
        We entered a clearing, with Bananas and Tanias, Cacao and Bois Immortelle, and better still, Avocado pears and orange-tree, with fruit.
        At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies