PEAR

pear

(noun) sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

pear, pear tree, Pyrus communis

(noun) Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

pear (plural pears)

An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.

A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

Synonym: pear tree

The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).

Choke pear (a torture device).

(Jamaica) avocado, alligator pear

A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

Source: Wiktionary

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Pear, n. Etym: [OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F. poire. Cf. Perry.] (Bot.)

Definition: The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight. (a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect (Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter. A. J. Downing. (b) (Zoöl.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose larvæ bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither.

– Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants (Pomeæ), characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry, and hewthorn.

– Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel. Pear shell (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the shape.

– Pear slug (Zoöl.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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