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This sounds like the sort of thing that's probably apocryphal but it's a thing I was taught in Spanish class that's certainly been linting up my brain ever since:
The avocado got its name for an indigenous word for testicle, referring not only to its shape but also its texture; if you've got any testicles handy, their degree of softness is what a ripe avocado should feel like.