An alligator pear is another name for which fruit?
"other Central American and Caribbean Spanish-speaking countries, it is known by the Mexican name, while South American Spanish-speaking countries use a Quechua-derived word, ""palta"". In Portuguese, it is ""abacate"". The fruit is sometimes called an avocado pear or alligator pear (due to its shape and the rough green skin of some cultivars). The Nahuatl ""ahuacatl"" can be compounded with other words, as in ""ahuacamolli"", meaning avocado soup or sauce, from which the Spanish word ""guacamole"" derives. In the United Kingdom, the term ""avocado pear"" is still sometimes misused as applied when avocados first became commonly available in the 1960s. Originating"
"Alligator pepper Alligator pepper (also known as mbongo spice or hepper pepper) is a West African spice which corresponds to the seeds and seed pods of ""Aframomum danielli"", ""A. citratum"" or ""A. exscapum"". It is a close relative of grains of paradise, obtained from the closely related species, ""Aframomum melegueta"". However, unlike grains of paradise which are generally sold as only the seeds of the plant, alligator pepper is sold as the entire pod containing the seeds (in the same manner to another close relative, black cardamom). The plants which provide alligator pepper are herbaceous perennials of the ginger (Zingiberaceae)"
"agenda and prior to any other food or entertainment. Prayers and libations are made together with kola nuts and alligator pepper. Alligator pepper Alligator pepper (also known as mbongo spice or hepper pepper) is a West African spice which corresponds to the seeds and seed pods of ""Aframomum danielli"", ""A. citratum"" or ""A. exscapum"". It is a close relative of grains of paradise, obtained from the closely related species, ""Aframomum melegueta"". However, unlike grains of paradise which are generally sold as only the seeds of the plant, alligator pepper is sold as the entire pod containing the seeds (in the"
"Annona glabra Annona glabra is a tropical fruit tree in the family Annonaceae, in the same genus as the Soursop and Cherimoya. Common names include pond apple, alligator apple (so called because American alligators often eat the fruit), swamp apple, corkwood, bobwood, and monkey apple. The tree is native to Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and West Africa. It is common in the Everglades. The ""A. glabra"" tree is considered an invasive species in Sri Lanka and Australia. It grows in swamps, is tolerant of saltwater, and cannot grow in dry soil. The trees"
"Amelanchier alnifolia Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, alder-leaf shadbush, dwarf shadbush, chuckley pear, or western juneberry, is a shrub with edible berry-like fruit, native to North America from Alaska across most of western Canada and in the western and north-central United States. Historically, it was also called pigeon berry. It grows from sea level in the north of the range, up to elevation in California and in the Rocky Mountains, and is a common shrub in the forest understory. The name ""saskatoon"" derives from the Cree inanimate noun ""misâskwatômina"" (""misâskwatômin"" ""NI sg"", saskatoonberry, ""misâskwatômina"" ""NI pl"" saskatoonberries)."
"language ). In El Salvador, it is called Jocote de Corona. Among the English-speaking Caribbean islands it is known as yellow mombin or hog plum, while in Jamaica it is called Spanish plum, gully plum or coolie plum. In Surinam the fruit is called Mope. In Brazil, the fruit is known by several different names, such as cajá, taperebá and ambaló. In Peru, it is known as uvos or mango ciruelo. In Ghana, it is hog plum or Ashanti plum. It is called ""Akukor"" in the Ewe language of Ghana. In Bengali, it is called ""আমড়া"" (Amṛa). In Nigeria, the"
"loquat, one of several ""Eriobotrya"" species, was formerly thought to be closely related to the genus ""Mespilus"", and is still sometimes known in some European countries as a medlar and is still sometimes called the ""Japanese medlar"". Many authors group ""Mespilus"" together with ""Crataegus"" in a single genus. When thus combined, the correct species name is ""Crataegus germanica"" (L.) Kuntze. The common name “snowy mespilus” attaches to certain species of ""Amelanchier"", notably ""Amelanchier lamarckii"" and ""Amelanchier ovalis"". ""Mespilus germanica"" features an unusual apple-like fruit. In southern Europe, the medlar fruit ripen fully and can be eaten off the tree, but"
"to November, which is the dry season. There are currently no studies that have looked at the biological control of ""A. glabra"" within Australia. Without studies, any actions taken to eliminate the ""A. glabra"" with biological controls could inadvertently affect native Australian apple species that belong to the same family. Annona glabra Annona glabra is a tropical fruit tree in the family Annonaceae, in the same genus as the Soursop and Cherimoya. Common names include pond apple, alligator apple (so called because American alligators often eat the fruit), swamp apple, corkwood, bobwood, and monkey apple. The tree is native to"
"pungent flavour. When babies are born in Yoruba culture, they are given a small taste of alligator pepper (atare) shortly after birth as part of the routine baby-welcoming process, and it is also used as an ingredient at traditional meet-and-greets. In Igboland, alligator pepper, ""ósè ọ́jị́"" with kola nuts are used in naming ceremonies, as presentation to visiting guests, and for other social events with the kola nut rite. The Igbo present and eat the alligator pepper together with kola nuts. In virtually every Igbo ceremony, alligator peppers and kola nuts are presented to guests at the top of the"
"to be more complex-tasting and flavorful, often described as possessing undertones of almond. They are known by many other names, including ""doughnut peach"" or ""donut peach"", ""paraguayo peach"", ""pan tao peach"", ""saucer peach"", ""flat peach"", ""belly-up peach"", ""UFO peach"", ""Chinese flat peach"", ""hat peach"", ""anjeer peach"", ""custard peach"", ""wild peach"", ""white peach"", ""pumpkin peach"", ""squashed peach"", ""bagel peach"" or ""pita peach"". The flat peach originated in China, where it is known as (). The fruit made a significant appearance in the 16th-century novel ""Journey to the West"", in which the Jade Emperor tasks Wukong to take charge of the ('Coiled"
"and ""setar"", and is the origin of the toponym Alor Setar (with ""alor"" meaning ""small stream""). In 2015 a major retailer introduced the fruit to the British public under the name ""plango"", apparently a portmanteau word for ""plum"" and ""mango"". At the time the announcements noted the resemblance of the fruit to plums and mangoes, and some of the local press deliberately or naively announced that the fruit was a cross between a plum and a mango, which is not botanically plausible without genetic engineering, given that plums and mangoes are not even in the same family; they are in"
"populations. Although American alligators have been listed as predators of West Indian manatees, very little evidence exists of such predation. In the 2000s, when invasive Burmese pythons occupied the Everglades, American alligators have been recorded preying on them, possibly controlling populations, thus preventing the invasive species from spreading northwards. In 2013, American alligators and other crocodilians were reported to also eat fruit. Such behavior has been witnessed, as well as documented from stomach contents, with the American alligators eating such fruit as wild grapes, elderberries, and citrus fruits directly from the trees. The discovery of this unexpected part of the"
"Pyrus pashia Pyrus pashia, the wild Himalayan pear, is a small to medium size deciduous tree of the small and oval shaped crown with ovate, finely toothed leaves, attractive white flowers with red anthers and small pear-like fruits. It is a fruit bearing tree that is native to southern Asia. Locally, it is known by many names such as batangi (Urdu), tangi (Kashmiri), mahal mol (Hindi) and passi (Nepal). ""Pyrus pashia"" is distributed across the Himalayas, from Pakistan to Vietnam and from southern province of China to the northern region of India. It is also found in Kashmir, Iran and"
"of plane trees in the genus ""Platanus"", the prefix ""pseudo-"" (from Ancient Greek) meaning ""false"". However, the two genera are in different families that are only distantly related. ""Acer"" and ""Platanus"" differ in the position in which leaves are attached to the stem (alternate in ""Platanus"", paired or opposite in ""Acer"") and in their fruit, which are spherical clusters in ""Platanus"" and paired samaras (winged fruit) in ""Acer"". The common name ""sycamore"" originally applied to the fig species ""Ficus sycomorus"", the sycamore or sycomore referred to in the Bible, that is native to southwest Asia. Other common names for the"
"include many ""Prunus"" species including prunes and cherries, crowberries (""Empetrum nigrum""), pears (""Pyrus"" ssp.), crabapples (""Malus"" ssp.), brambles (""Rubus fruticosus""), raspberries (""Rubus idaeus""), bearberries (""Arctostaphylos"" ssp.) (reportedly named for bears' fondness for them), blueberries (""Vaccinium"" ssp.), lingonberries (""Vaccinium vitis-idaea"") and huckleberries (""Vaccinium parvifolium""). Fruit appears to become more secondary in the diet in areas where hard masts and animal protein are abundant in late summer and fall, as these more protein-rich foods appear to be more nutritious for bears than carbohydrate-rich fruits are, despite their fondness for fruit. Even where fruit are commonly eaten, other foods must be eaten to"
"likely used to make perry. Similarly named trees with astringent fruits include the choke cherry (the common name for several species of cherry tree that grow in North America and whose fruits are small and bitter tasting: ""Prunus virginiana"", ""Prunus demissa"", and ""Prunus serotina"") and the choke plum. Choke pear (plant) A choke pear or chocky-pear is an astringent fruit. The term is used for the fruit of any variety of pear which has an astringent taste and is difficult to swallow. One variety of choke pear is poire d'Angoisse, a variety of pear that was grown in Angoisse, a"
"Pear The pear () tree and shrub are a species of genus Pyrus , in the family Rosaceae, bearing the pomaceous fruit of the same name. Several species of pear are valued for their edible fruit and juices while others are cultivated as trees. The word ""pear"" is probably from Germanic ""pera"" as a loanword of Vulgar Latin ""pira"", the plural of ""pirum"", akin to Greek ""apios"" (from Mycenaean ""ápisos""), of Semitic origin (""pirâ""), meaning ""fruit"". The adjective ""pyriform"" or ""piriform"" means pear-shaped. The pear is native to coastal and mildly temperate regions of the Old World, from western Europe"
"Apricot An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus ""Prunus"" (stone fruits). Usually, an apricot tree is from the species ""P. armeniaca"", but the species ""P. brigantina"", ""P. mandshurica"", ""P. mume"", ""P. zhengheensis"" and ""P. sibirica"" are closely related, have similar fruit, and are also called apricots. The scientific name ""armeniaca"" was first used by Gaspard Bauhin in his ""Pinax Theatri Botanici"" (1623), referring to the species as ""Mala armeniaca"" ""Armenian apple"". Linnaeus took up Bauhin's epithet in the first edition of his ""Species Plantarum"" in 1753, ""Prunus armeniaca"". ""Apricot"""
"groups. Most of the cultivars belong to the ""Akanashi"" ('Russet pears') group, and have yellowish-brown rinds. The ""Aonashi"" ('Green pears') have yellow-green rinds. Important cultivars include: Pyrus pyrifolia Pyrus pyrifolia is a species of pear tree native to East Asia. The tree's edible fruit is known by many names, including: Asian pear, Chinese pear, Korean pear, Japanese pear, Taiwanese pear, zodiac pear, and sand pear. Along with cultivars of ""P. × bretschneideri"" and ""P. ussuriensis"", the fruit is also called the nashi pear. Cultivars derived from ""Pyrus pyrifolia"" are grown throughout East Asia, and in other countries such as India,"
"title of chapter 40 of his ""Kitab al-Filaha"" as والتفاح الارمني, """"apple from Armenia"""", stating that it is the same as المشمش or البرقوق (""al-mishmish"" or ""al-barqūq""). Accordingly, the ""American Heritage Dictionary"" under ""apricot"" derives ""praecocia"" from ""praecoquus"", ""cooked or ripened beforehand"" [in this case meaning ""early ripening""], becoming Greek ""πραικόκιον"" ""praikókion"" ""apricot"" and Arabic البرقوق ""al-barqūq"", a term that has been used for a variety of different members of the genus ""Prunus"" (it currently refers primarily to the plum in most varieties of Arabic, but some writers use it as a catchall term for ""Prunus"" fruit). The English name"
"particular, classified the fruits by color, time of ripening, and how well they kept in storage. ""Opuntia engelmannii"" is cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use in drought tolerant gardens, container plantings, and natural landscaping projects. Master Gardeners of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension — ""Opuntia engelmannii"" Opuntia engelmannii Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including cow's tongue cactus, cow tongue prickly pear, desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear, and Texas prickly pear in the"
"both the fruits and the tender leaves are eaten. Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón"
"century, and Israel in 1908. In the United States, the avocado was introduced to Florida and Hawaii in 1833 and in California in 1856. Before 1915, the avocado was commonly referred to in California as ""ahuacate"" and in Florida as ""alligator pear"". In 1915, the California Avocado Association introduced the then-innovative term ""avocado"" to refer to the plant. The word ""avocado"" comes from the Spanish ""aguacate"", which in turn comes from the Nahuatl word ""āhuacatl"" , which goes back to the proto-Aztecan ""*pa:wa"" which also meant ""avocado"". Sometimes the Nahuatl word was used with the meaning ""testicle"", probably because of"
"tree featured on a stamp of the United States Postal Service. Lucy Larcom composed a poem, titled ""The Governor's Tree"", about the Endicott Pear Tree in 1890 for Arbor Day. Endicott Pear Tree The Endicott Pear Tree, also known as the Endecott Pear, is a European Pear (""Pyrus communis"") tree, located in Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts. It is believed to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America. The Endicott Pear Tree was planted in its current location between 1632 and 1649 (William Bentley reports dates of 1630, 1631, and 1639 in his diary) by John Endecott—a governor"
"Alligator An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus ""Alligator"" of the family Alligatoridae. The two living species are the American alligator (""A. mississippiensis"") and the Chinese alligator (""A. sinensis""). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. The name ""alligator"" is probably an anglicized form of """", the Spanish term for ""the lizard"", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Later English spellings of the name included ""allagarta"" and ""alagarto"". An average adult American alligator's weight and length is and"
"Rangpur (fruit) Rangpur, Citrus"" × ""limonia or Citrus reticulata"" x ""medica, sometimes called the rangpur lime, mandarin lime or lemandarin, is a hybrid between the mandarin orange and the citron. It is a citrus fruit with a very acidic taste and an orange peel and flesh. Common names for this fruit include rangpur, named after Rangpur, Bangladesh, an area known for this and other citrus fruits. This is where the word originated in the Bengali language. The rangpur is also known in India as ""Sylhet lime"", ""surkh nimboo"", ""sharbati"", and ""gandhraj"" (meaning 'king of fragrance'). It is known as a"
"at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. Asimina triloba Asimina triloba, the papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. It belongs to the genus ""Asimina"" in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop. The pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottom-land and hilly upland habitat, with large, simple leaves. Pawpaw fruits are the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States (not counting"
"In certain parts of the world, some fruits are called plums and are quite different from fruits known as plums in Europe or the Americas. For example, marian plums are popular in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, otherwise also known as ""gandaria"", ""plum mango"", ""ma-praang"", ""ma-yong"", ""ramania"", ""kundang"", ""rembunia"" or ""setar"". Another example is the loquat, also known as Japanese plum and Japanese medlar, as well as ""nispero"", ""bibassier"" and ""wollmispel"" elsewhere. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, jambul, a fruit from tropical tree in Myrtaceae family, is similarly sometimes referred to 'damson plums', and it is different from damson plums"
"Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón in Costa Rica, golden apple in Grenada, Saint Vincent"
"fruit is called Iyeye or Yeye in the Yoruba language, ngulungwu in Igbo and isada in Hausa. Other common names include hug plum, true yellow mombin, golden apple or Java plum, Ambaralla (ඇඹරැල්ල) in Sri Lanka. In Panama it is called mangotin. In ""habla congo"" of palo mayombe in Cuba, it is called ""nkunia guenguere kunansieto', ciruela. In Palauan, it is called titimel. Spondias mombin Spondias mombin or ""Spondias purpurea"" var. ""lutea"", also known as yellow mombin or hog plum is a species a tree and flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including"
"also consumed by humans. In 2010, the Archbishop of New Orleans ruled that for purposes of Catholic church discipline in relation to abstention from meat, the flesh of the alligator is characterised as fish. Alligator An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus ""Alligator"" of the family Alligatoridae. The two living species are the American alligator (""A. mississippiensis"") and the Chinese alligator (""A. sinensis""). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. The name ""alligator"" is probably an anglicized form of """", the Spanish term"
"melon or melon pear. Another common name, ""tree melon"", is more often used for the papaya (""Carica papaya"") though the pepino dulce plant generally does not look much like a tree; it looks more like a ground cover, trailing plant. The present species is, however, a close relative of other nightshades cultivated for their fruit, including the tomato (""S. lycopersicum"") and the eggplant (""S. melongena""), which its own fruit closely resembles. The fruit is common in markets in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, but less often overseas because it is quite sensitive to handling and does not travel well."
"pipe for stage actors portraying Holmes, because they could balance this pipe better than other styles while delivering their lines. See, Smoking pipe (tobacco)#Calabash. Calabash A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, ""Lagenaria siceraria"", also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh. Calabash fruits have a variety of"