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alligator pears

alligator pears is the plural of alligator pear.

Meaning of alligator pear

Noun

alligator pear (plural alligator pears)

  1. (Caribbean, Louisiana, Southern US, dialectal, especially) An avocado.
    • There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 52”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Questions about alligator pears

What is alligator pears the plural of?
Alligator pears is the plural of alligator pear.

Words near alligator pears in the dictionary

  1. alligator junipers
  2. alligator leather
  3. alligator lizard
  4. alligator lizards
  5. alligator pear
  6. alligator pears
  7. alligator pepper
  8. alligator saw
  9. alligator saws
  10. alligator shear
  11. alligator shears

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