WordNet
n. tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits [syn: avocado, Persea Americana]
Usage examples of "avocado tree".
If you plan to keep the avocado tree in your home, you can dwarf it by pinching back the center leaves to stunt the branch growth.
Methuselah sits puny and still in his avocado tree with his eyes ticking back and forth, unprepared for a new season of overwhelming freedom.
He had built the house in the avocado tree forty years ago out of redwood fence lumber, setting it not on the tree branches themselves, but within them, resting it on posts fixed in concrete pilings.
Four soldiers in the camouflage of the Guatemalan army lounged in the shade of an avocado tree.
He forced himself not to look back, but walked around the corner and drew his knife and waited in the shadows by the inn's gate, under the wide canopy of the avocado tree.
Skink settled in under a tall avocado tree, and from the window Decker could see him sitting upright against the trunk, facing the narrow waterway that ran behind Catherine's house.
Tagger had been out walking with friends when he spotted a raccoon perched in the top of an old avocado tree on Whitehead Street.
The quarter acre yard was smaller than he remembered, although it was immense by southern California standards, and the untended Bermuda grass lawn, flanked by now-weedy flowerbeds, stretched away toward the back fence and garden as ever, with the same orange trees and the big avocado tree that had shaded it since as early as he could remember.
He finally found an avocado tree and managed to knock down a couple of avocados and then he climbed a fire escape to the top of a three-story building and sat there and stared at the slow sunset while he chewed them up.
She was, he saw, captured by the electric blue of the pool, the plush green of an avocado tree, the purple of bougainvillea around a driveway, the high-speed mosaic of a freeway.
Maria kept a careful garden: an avocado tree shaded the doorway to the house.