An avocado is a fruit with thick green or dark-purple skin, soft green flesh inside, and a large round seed in the middle. People eat it in salad, on toast, or mashed. It is not sweet like an apple; it is rich and soft.

An avocado酪梨 is a fruit是一種水果 with thick green or dark-purple skin外皮厚，是綠色或深紫色，soft green flesh inside裡面果肉是軟軟的綠色，and a large round seed in the middle中間有一顆大大圓圓的籽。People人們 eat it會吃它 in salad, on toast, or mashed加在沙拉裡、抹在吐司上，或搗成泥吃。It它 is not sweet like an apple不像蘋果那樣甜；it它 is rich and soft吃起來濃郁綿密。

In shops in Taiwan you will see it with the other fruit. Younger people eat it a lot, often as a “healthy” food.

In shops in Taiwan在台灣的店裡 you will see it你會看到它 with the other fruit和其他水果放在一起。Younger people年輕人 eat it a lot很常吃它，often as a "healthy" food常把它當成「健康」食物。

The colour avocado is a dull yellow-green, named after the flesh.

The colour avocado顏色詞avocado酪梨綠 is a dull yellow-green是一種帶灰的黃綠色，named after the flesh是以果肉的顏色命名的。

Though actually the English word travelled a long way: from Latin American Spanish avocado, from an earlier Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl, the old name for this fruit. The first English mention is in a 1696 list of plants from Jamaica.

Though actually不過實際上，the English word travelled a long way這個英文詞一路輾轉而來：from Latin American Spanish avocado源自拉丁美洲西班牙語的avocado，from an earlier Spanish aguacate而那又源自更早的西班牙語aguacate，from Nahuatl āhuacatl再往前追溯到納瓦特語的āhuacatl，the old name for this fruit也就是這種水果古時候的名字。The first English mention英文最早提到這個字 is in a 1696 list of plants是在1696年一份植物清單裡，from Jamaica那份清單來自牙買加。