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avocado NOUN (pl -dos) 1 a pear-shaped fruit having a leathery green or blackish skin, a large stony seed, and a greenish-yellow edible pulp 2 the tropical American lauraceous tree, Persea americana, that bears this fruit 3 a dull greenish colour resembling that of the fruit

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