alligator pear
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How to use alligator pear in a sentence
Alligator-pear salad—more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold—is offered to me.
Bizarre | Lawton MackallIt was like an alligator pear—and his complexion was like those cactus fruits that likewise infest fancy grocers' shops.
Ptomaine Street | Carolyn WellsProbably the man who would order "stewed tripe Spanish" wouldn't touch an alligator pear salad.
Vignettes Of San Francisco | Almira BaileyOne large or two small heads of lettuce; four medium sized tomatoes; one alligator pear.
Stevenson Memorial Cook Book | VariousThey have not the plantain, good 21 baked, nor the avocado or alligator pear, which fried in butter or oil is so admirable.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. Sherwood
British Dictionary definitions for alligator pear
another name for avocado
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