alligator pear

Example Sentences

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Once known as the alligator pear, the avocado traces its history to southern Mexico, where the fruit, according to some experts, was first cultivated about 5,000 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times

The references may have changed — “alligator pears” instead of avocado toast; Vionnet, not Vuori; telegrams rather than texting — but the preoccupation with love, money, fun and trouble is eternal.

From New York Times

The fruits were beautiful inside the windows—bananas, oranges, alligator pears, bright little kumquats, and even a few pineapples.

From Literature

Same with avocado, which achieved superstardom after dropping the name “alligator pear.”

From Salon

I showed Leah where you could get into the alligator pear tree and she boosted me up.

From Literature