alligator pear

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#1·4h ago

(dialectal, now, chiefly, Caribbean, and, Southern US, especially, Louisiana) An avocado.

Origin: The "alligator" is likely an alteration of , perhaps influenced by the similarity in texture between the skin of the fruit and of an alligator. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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