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AVOCADO PEAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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AVOCADO See also:

PEAR (Pyrus communis)

PEAR , the See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of the See also:

tree Perna gratissima, which grows in the See also:

West Indies and elsewhere; the flesh is of a soft and See also:

BUTTERY (from O. Fr. boterie, Late Lat. botaria, a place where liquor is stored, from butta, a cask)

buttery consistency and highly esteemed. The name avocado, the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish for " See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate," is a See also:

sound-substitute for the Aztec ahuacall; it is also corrupted into " See also:

ALLIGATOR (Spanish el lagarto, " the lizard ")

alligator-pear." Avocato, avigato, abbogada are variants.

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