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Image:Pears.jpg|thumb|Photo of two pears

English

Etymology

pere, common West Germanic, from Vulgar *pira, feminine singular of pira, plural of pirum, pear

Pronunciation


Homophones


Noun

  1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
  2. (also pear tree) A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
  3. : A trio of pears pared to a pair of pears.
  4. The wood of the pear tree.


Derived terms

Translations

  • Japanese: 梨 (なし, nashi)
  • Korean: {{t-|ko|서양배|sc=Hang}}
  • Kurdish: {{t+|ku|hirmî|f}}, , {{t+|ku|هه‌رمێ|sc=KUchar}}
  • Latin: {{t-|la|pirum|n}}
  • Lithuanian: kriaušė
  • Macedonian: круша (kruša)
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|pære|c}}
  • Persian: {{t+|fa|گلابی|tr=golabi|sc=fa-Arab|xs=Persian}}
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|gruszka|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pêra|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t+|ro|pară|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|груша|f|tr=gruša|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Sardinian: pira
  • Scots: peir
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: крушка
  • : Roman: kruška
  • Slovak: {{t-|sk|hruška|f}}
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|hruška|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|pera|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|päron|n}}
  • Turkish:
  • West Frisian: par
  • Hungarian: körtefa
  • Italian: {{t+|it|pero|m}}
  • Kurdish:
  • Latin: {{t-|la|pirus|m}}
  • Lithuanian: kriaušė
  • Norwegian: pæretre
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|grusza|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pêra|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|груша|f|tr=grúša|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Scots: peir
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: крушка
  • : Roman: kruška
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|peral|m}}
  • Swedish:

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West Frisian

Noun

pear

  1. pair


Category:Fruits Category:West Frisian nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pear \Pear\ (p[^a]r), n. [OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F.
poire. Cf. Perry.] (Bot.)
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.
[1913 Webster]

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) (Zool.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose
larv[ae] bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them
to wither.

Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants
(Pome[ae]), 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 hawthorn.

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 (Zool.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus
Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the
shape.

Pear slug (Zool.), the larva of a sawfly which is very
injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.
[1913 Webster]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet pear
n 1: sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many
varieties
2: Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit;
widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: pear tree, {Pyrus
communis}]
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