| 词汇 | avocado |
| 释义 | avocado noun uk /ˌæv.əˈkɑː.dəʊ/ us /ˌɑː.vəˈkɑː.doʊ/ [ C or U ]pluralavocados(UK alsoavocado pear) a tropical fruit with thick, dark green or purple skin, a large, round seed, and soft, pale green flesh that can be eaten: 鳄梨 Half an avocado contains about 160 calories. Guacamole is a dip, spread or salad made with mashed avocado. Tobias Titz/GettyImages [ U ](alsoavocado green) a pale green colour like the flesh of an avocado: The walls are painted a pale avocado. I tried the linen trousers in a shade of avocado green. Ti_ser/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages They grow avocados which taste sensational. I like to add some diced avocado to the dish. Avocado farmers say the freeze was devastating to their crop. The kitchen units are done in the avocado green that was popular in the 1970s. An en-suite bathroom in avocado led off the master bedroom. Types of fruit ackee alligator pear alpine strawberry amla açaí coconut cooker cooking apple copra crab apple loganberry longan loquat lychee majhool date redcurrant rockmelon rose hip salmonberry saskatoon You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Less common colours avocado adjective uk /ˌæv.əˈkɑː.dəʊ/ us /ˌɑː.vəˈkɑː.doʊ/(alsoavocado green) of a pale green colour like the flesh of an avocado: The Brussels sprouts turn bright green and then start to fade to a more avocado colour. The appliances were all avocado green. The place clearly has not been touched since the Seventies judging from the groovy avocado bathroom suite. The bath was avocado. Less common colours apple green argent ashy baby blue baby pink carmine cerise dun emerald puce ruddily rust saffron salmon pink sanguine sapphire shocking pink sky blue slaty verdure A Japanese sushi chef working in California put avocado in a sushi roll instead of o-toro (fatty tuna). Americans who didn’t want to try raw fish but enjoyed avocado loved this new kind of food. avocado | American Dictionaryavocado noun[ C ] us/ˌɑ·vəˈkɑ·doʊ, ˌæv·ə-/pluralavocados a fruit with thick green or black skin, a large round seed at the center, and oily green or yellow flesh, which is often eaten as a vegetable in salads Examples of avocadoavocado Nearly two-thirds of the population work in agriculture, growing maize, beans, sesame, mangos, watermelons and avocados. Starch deposited as starch granules, and storage proteins accumulated in protein bodies, are the main reserve products in avocado embryos. In example (20), the directive against eating avocados is accompanied by a justification (the price of avocados). The objective of this investigation was to establish a pattern of avocado zygotic embryogenesis using histological techniques. Adult thrips were aspirated, moved daily until death and enclosed within glass cells on the undersides of immature avocado leaves. Whereas such identity amounts to c. 70% in the case of chestnut, banana and avocado chitinases, it can be as low as 49% in other cases. Therefore, it is important to determine changes occurring in the avocado zygotic embryo from the beginning of the early cotyledonary stage to the attainment of physiological maturity. Duplicated phosphoglucose isomerase genes in avocado. Avocado embryos at early developmental stages fail to germinate, probably due to incomplete histodifferentiation and the absence of storage products. Starch granules and protein bodies show different temporal and spatial accumulation patterns during avocado embryogenesis. Avocado and mango were both very starch-rich seeds. Tomato is the chief "lag word" in this set, standing apart from the other "greengrocer" words tested (avocado, mango) where the e-less plurals are preferred by the majority. An example would be a farm producing avocado pears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is now an avocado soup kitchen there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A farmer must wait seven years before a tree produces an avocado pear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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