Guacamole vs. Avocado

Guacamolenoun

An avocado-based greenish dip with onions, tomato, and spices. Common to Mexican cuisine, it is often served with tortilla chips.

Guacamolenoun

a dip made of mashed avocado mixed with chopped onions and other seasonings

Guacamole

Guacamole (Spanish: [(ɡ)wakaˈmole] (listen); (informally shortened to guac in the United States since the 1980s) is an avocado-based dip, spread, or salad first developed in Mexico. In addition to its use in modern Mexican cuisine, it has become part of international and American cuisine as a dip, condiment and salad ingredient.

Avocadonoun

The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.

Avocadonoun

The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.

Avocadonoun

A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the meat of an avocado.

Avocadoadjective

Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Avocadonoun

The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; - called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

Avocadonoun

a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed

Avocadonoun

tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits

Avocadoadjective

of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado

Avocadonoun

a pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin and smooth, oily edible flesh

Avocadonoun

a light green colour like that of the flesh of avocados.

Avocadonoun

the tropical evergreen tree that bears the avocado, native to Central America and widely cultivated elsewhere.

Avocado

The avocado (Persea americana), a tree likely originating from south-central Mexico, is classified as a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae. The fruit of the plant, also called an avocado (or avocado pear or alligator pear), is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed.