alligator pear
English
Noun
alligator pear (plural alligator pears)
- (dialectal, now chiefly Caribbean and Southern US, especially Louisiana) An avocado.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 52
- There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 52
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