Avocado, with its might, of being shaped like a water droplet, enlarged, green then muddy brownish-purple (ripe) — sometimes with those black spots, looks like a testicle, hanging on a tree — is indeed originally named testicle. 🤣🤦 I kid you not, dear reader. Avocado ( Persea americana ) is native to Central America and southern Mexico. It was first domesticated by the indigenous peoples there thousands of years ago — long before the Spanish even knew the New World (the continent of America). In Nahuatl (language or group of languages belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language family), it is āhuacatl . It literally means testicle. They call it that due to the shape of the fruit. Āhuacatl is pronounced as aː.wakat͡ɬ . AH-wah-kahtl. The final -tl is a single consonant ( t͡ɬ ), common in Nahuatl, pronounced like a soft, quick "tl" with the tongue flicking near the roof of the mouth (think of a quick "tul" but not fully separated). The Spanish Then came the Sp...