Explain my answer please

[dancecaller]

Clue:

One may be called in Spanish the see-you-later fruit (7).

[dancecaller]

We had A*O*A*O

so it must be AVOCADO,

but why?

[mike b]

avocado also called alligator pear

[dancecaller]

groooooooan!!

but what has that got to do with Spanish?

[dr john]

Probably because the word derives from the Spanish version of the original Nahuatl word, although in the context of the clue it's superfluous (and therefore bad).

{I suppose you could just make a case for saying that an avocado (obsolete 'lawyer' in Spanish) can be called (to the bar)... no, not really. It's bad.}

[sarumite]

av�o�ca�do (ăv'ə-k�'dō, �'və-)
n., pl. -dos.

A tropical American tree (Persea americana) having oval or pear-shaped fruit with leathery skin, yellowish-green flesh, and a large seed.
The edible fruit of this tree. Also called alligator pear, avocado pear.
A dull green.
[American Spanish, alteration (influenced by obsolete Spanish avocado, lawyer) of Nahuatl ahuacatl.]

[dancecaller]

thanks!

I would never have known that. (well, maybe now it's been mentioned I have heard of an alligator pear)

[Pea Pod]

Never one to give up but I wish I had here is your explanation. Martin Fernando de Encisco (spanish) found the avocado in 1519 and described it as having an alligator hide. Hence ..See you later Alligator, in a while Crocodile. I have lost the will to live after tracking this information down.

[dancecaller]

Thanks pea pod. Better late than never.

[jamspanner]

See you later...alligator

[dancecaller]

In a while crocodile

[mike b]

Actually, avocado is nothing to do with spanish lawyers - in fact from amerindian word meaning 'testicle'!