Tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits

Usage examples of avocado.

Irritably, Colette put the trout in the fridge, cleaned the fennel, made vinaigrette for the avocados, and decided to eat the apricots as they were, without bothering to make tart crust.

The cafe still serves breakfast all day, but the quiche on the menu is as likely to contain porta bello mushrooms as cheddar cheese, the bread is homemade, thick, and filled with goodies like wheat germ and nuts, and the lunch sandwiches are served on baguettes with avocado slices and bean sprouts.

The maid had set out five bone china plates holding salads that combined Bibb lettuce, avocado slices, and wedges of ripe pear with a crumbling of Gorgonzola.

Arrange the scrambled eggs down the middle, then top with the scallions, avocado, salsa, sour cream, and cilantro if you have some in the house.

On the way home he stopped at Vons to pick up some avocados -- he felt like guacamole -- and while lingering near the produce counter he noticed a curious willowy woman in gray sweats, squeezing the plump cassava melons, one by one.

It was threaded with rivers crossed by high bridges and, in the valleys and on the hillsides, mostly grown in what were clearly prosperous small or medium-sized holdings, coffee, kumquats, maize, avocado, peppers, with tomatoes and potatoes stacked by the roadside for collection, huge and red.

In between the goddesses is a stone Shivayoni linga, which looks like half an avocado with a phallic stump rising from its centre, a Hindu symbol representing the male and female energies of the universe.

Lizzie explained that mirliton was a vegetable pear and alligator pears were avocados.

He twittered a bit and then prescribed pulverized avocado seed and crushed plantain in raw, unfermented maguey juice.

Then I peeled, pitted, and mashed the plump avocados destined for my Holy Moly Guacamole.

A pair of avocado trees and a giant dieffenbachia brought the forest inside and separated a sunken tile hot tub from a casual seating area.

The great four-poster bed was a tumult of soft quilts, and there was an uneaten avocado on a silver tray and undrunk liquor in a jar.

The sandwich was good, with lettuce, tomato, artichoke heart, avocado, water chestnuts, and a lemony aioli, on thick slices of white bread that Pauline baked every day.

Typical sources of monounsaturated fats include olives, avocado, and selected nuts, such as almonds, pistachios, and macadamia.

There were chilies, tomatoes, corn, squash, pumpkins, papaya, avocado, and loaves of breadnut, as well as the boiled carcasses of rabbit, iguana, and armadillo.