The phrase "avocado pear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the fruit known as avocado, which is sometimes called avocado pear in certain regions.
Example: "For a healthy snack, I like to make a salad with diced avocado pear, tomatoes, and lime juice."
Alternatives: "avocado" or "alligator pear".
For instance: avocado pear" and "Are you Alan Patridge?
You can choose what you want to eat (in my case, an entire avocado pear).
In the local greengrocer's shop, an avocado pear was a rare enough sighting, a pomegranate unheard of.
But, for my generation, it's the avocado pear that's the ultimate symbol of luxury and creamy indulgence.
My other favourite foods include avocado pear, bananas, pears, oranges, grapes and walnuts, when they are in season.
Eating an avocado pear was a statement event, an engagement with a piece of exotica shaped like a light bulb but with the most delicious taste.
He was getting reports of people biting into the tough, green skin and saying it didn't taste like a pear – they were known as "avocado pears" then.
I remember coming out of South Kensington station one evening and seeing these very strange new things on sale (at the greengrocers) called avocado pears.
Carmela Kolman reinforces the point in "Avocado Pears," in which the fruit is a vehicle for the study of pictorial form, interactive color and spatial relationships.
Avocado When small green fruits called avocado pears first appeared on supermarket shelves in the 1960s, no one quite knew what to do with them – in Manchester one woman stewed them and served them with custard.
Most of the crops introduced were temperate, high-value, capital intensive crops, such as vegetables (lettuce, strawberry, Japanese pumpkin, zucchini, bell pepper, carrot), flowers (statis, gypsophylla, carnation), and fruits (avocado, peach, pear, apricot, apple).
