English

Noun

alligator pear ‎(plural alligator pears)

1. (dialectal, now chiefly Caribbean and Southern US, chiefly Louisiana) An avocado.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 52

     There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.