a wee snippet aboot the word "avocado"..

Dont you just love to pick up wee snippets of info that you can dazzle your friends with.

Todays wee snippet is that the name Avocado is derived from the Aztec description of the plant it grows on: the testicle tree..
Originally the size of an olive Avocados were cultivated to be the size we know them today.
The Aztecs called them ahuacacuauhiti. The name was written down as avocado by a brit(Sir hans sloan) in 1699.However, "ahuacacuauhiti" means testicle tree which was very apt as the fruits used to dangle a wee bit.
Monks once deemed the avocado to be a promoter of lust and banned the tree as the spanish conquistadores used them as aphrodisiacs.

So, there you go, better than the tubular , erect and slightly curved fungal genus , which topped with a small protuberance has the latin name of Phallus...

As i said, don't you just love wee snippets..