The word avocado comes from the Spanish aguacate, which derives from the Nahuatl (Mexican) word āhuacatl [aːˈwakat͡ɬ],[40] which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa.[41] In Molina’s Nahuatl dictionary “auacatl” is given also as the translation for compañón “testicle”,[42] and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word’s original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed as “avocado” – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for “testicle”.[43][44][45]
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Testicles?
Nope! Chuck Testes
At whom?
Haha, amazing. I definitely didn’t know that
Testickles? But who’s getting tickled?
they took the pussymost flower there is and they named it after the balls on the roots
🎶 You took my orchid / you took my orchid n turned it blue! 🎶
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Talking about testicle…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado
Genus Deez
I need to water the testicles in the kitchen
I’m sending a collection of these to my wife. Any good boob shaped ones?
Melon comes from an ancient Greek word which referred to fruit, but was also, at the time, used as a euphemism for boobs.
Melons forever.
Edit: From Wiktionary:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/58c66cdd-e302-456f-84f0-5db335e9821a.jpeg">
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Myrtillocactus_geometrizans
Gallery, image 3 the boob cactus
‘Fukuro cactus’. Yeah that’s boobs.
Surprisingly short list regarding the millions of described species!
Orchids, arguably the most vaginal of flowers, were named after testicles? and ppl deny there’s a patriarchy…
Reminds me of when a list of “female SciFi authors” was deleted because it’s “too irrelevant”