avocado

1. 1.

   of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of avocado

plural

avocadoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about avocado

What does avocado mean?

avocado means "a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avocado?

avocado has 4 syllables: av-o-ca-do. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌævəˈkɑdoʊ/.

What is another word for avocado?

Close synonyms include alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate, avocado tree, Persea Americana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avocado a common word?

avocado is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with avocado?

2 words rhyme with avocado. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.