0 a tropical fruit with thick, dark green or purple skin, a large, round seed, and soft, pale green flesh that can be eaten: --
2 a fruit with thick green or black skin, a large round seed at the center, and oily green or yellow flesh, which is often eaten as a vegetable in salads --
A farmer must wait seven years before a tree produces an avocado pear.
There is now an avocado soup kitchen there.
An example would be a farm producing avocado pears.
Tomato is the chief "lag word" in this set, standing apart from the other "greengrocer" words tested (avocado, mango) where the e-less plurals are preferred by the majority.
Avocado and mango were both very starch-rich seeds.
Starch granules and protein bodies show different temporal and spatial accumulation patterns during avocado embryogenesis.
Avocado embryos at early developmental stages fail to germinate, probably due to incomplete histodifferentiation and the absence of storage products.
Duplicated phosphoglucose isomerase genes in avocado.
