alligator pear

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noun

avocado(def 1).

Origin of alligator pear

1755–65; alligator, alteration by folk etymology of Spanish avocado or American Spanish aguacate (see avocado)

Words nearby alligator pear

alligator, alligator clip, alligator forceps, alligator gar, alligator lizard, alligator pear, alligator pepper, alligator shear, alligator skin, alligator snapping turtle, alligator wrench

Example sentences from the Web for alligator pear

  • Avocado, a-vo-k′do, n. the alligator-pear, a West Indian fruit.

    Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) |Various

  • She ate nothing but alligator-pear salad and hothouse grapes, drank a little champagne, and took cognac in her coffee.

    Song of the Lark |Willa Cather

  • Alligator-pear salad—more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold—is offered to me.

    Bizarre |Lawton Mackall

British Dictionary definitions for alligator pear

alligator pear

noun

another name for avocado