The name comes from the Spanish word "aguacate," which, in turn, is derived from the Mexican word "ahuacatl." Avocado was originally called “alligator pear,” after an Irishman in 1696 called i ...

The avocado's phallic outline has not gone unnoticed over the centuries with the Aztecs dubbing the fruit tree "ahuacatl" or "testicle tree". These tasty starters are high in vitamin b6 ...

Another Aztec aphrodisiac food, the original word for avocados, "ahuacatl" means testicles. And while we don't want to take credit away from the Aztec's impeccable humor, the word may not have just ...

A fruit with many names This alien invader goes by many names: avocado, alligator pear, palta, aguacate, Persea Americana (the scientific name) and its original name is ahuacatl, which is Nahuatl for ...

The table above is the complete Ahuacatlán Ramadan Calendar 2024. Here you can see the Sehri timing and iftar timing in Ahuacatlán from the first to the last Ramadan fasting day. The Islamic and ...

Then in the 1500's, the newly arrived Spanish saw how much the Aztecs, who were the Indigenous people of South America, liked avocados or ahuacatl and wanted to find out what all the fuss was about.

A number of online dictionaries indicate that the Nahuatl word for avocado, ahuacatl, was also the word the Aztecs used for “testicle.” And it’s fairly easy to see why, given their shape.