alligator pear

alligator pear

noun
avocado ( def 1 ).

Origin:
1755–65; alligator, alteration by folk etymology of Spanish avocado or American Spanish aguacate (see avocado)

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alligator pear
 
n
another name for avocado

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Alligator pear is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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