Noun: avocado
| Singular | avocado |
| Plural | avocados; avocadoes |
Sample Sentences
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For example, 90% of the avocados Americans consumed in 2022 were imported. Of the avocados imported into the US, 89% came from Mexico. Said differently, your guac and your avocado toast could skyrocket if 25% tariffs are levied on Mexico. [2024 November 26, Elisabeth Buchwald, “What could get more expensive if Trump launches a new trade war with Mexico and Canada”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2024:]
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It was exactly the same as my bathroom. Same cork floor, same avocado bathroom set. [2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 57:]
Nouns inflected like avocado
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.
2. The first mention can be found in a catalogue of Jamaican plants in 1696. See: Spanish Nouns '
avocado'.
Verbs referencing "avocado"
Romanian Nouns
avocado, Finnish Nouns
avokado, Hungarian Nouns
avokádó, Irish Nouns
abhacád, Icelandic Nouns
avókadó.