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alligator pear

noun as in avocado

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Alligator-pear salad—more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold—is offered to me.

It was like an alligator pear—and his complexion was like those cactus fruits that likewise infest fancy grocers' shops.

Probably the man who would order "stewed tripe Spanish" wouldn't touch an alligator pear salad.

One large or two small heads of lettuce; four medium sized tomatoes; one alligator pear.

They have not the plantain, good 21 baked, nor the avocado or alligator pear, which fried in butter or oil is so admirable.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alligator pear, such as: avocado pear, and midshipman's butter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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