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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

鳄梨

Pronunciation / Transliteration: è lí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Avocado/ˌæv.əˈkɑː.doʊ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我喜欢在沙拉中加入鳄梨。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A pear-shaped fruit with a creamy texture and a large seed, commonly used in salads and spreads.

    "I love adding avocado to my toast for breakfast."
  2. 2

    The tree that bears the avocado fruit, native to Central America.

    "The avocado tree can grow up to 20 meters tall."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Classical Nahuatl word 'āhuacatl', meaning both 'testicle' and 'avocado' due to the fruit's shape. It passed into Spanish as 'aguacate', and was subsequently anglicized into 'avocado' through folk etymology involving the unrelated Spanish word 'avocado' (advocate).

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