(亦作 avocado pear)a pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone 鳄梨。 亦称 alligator pear ■[mass noun]a light green colour like that of the flesh of avocados 鳄梨色
the tropical evergreen tree which bears this fruit, native to Central America and widely cultivated elsewhere 鳄梨树
Persea americana, family Lauraceae 拉丁名Persea americana,樟科
语源
mid 17th cent.: from Spanish, alteration (influenced by avocado 'advocate') of aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuacatl