NOUN | food | pear | sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties |
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plant | pear, pear tree, Pyrus communis | Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit |
Sounds | peh'r | |
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Rhymes | affair ... wheelchair: 116 rhymes with ehr... |
Meaning | Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties. | |
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Part of | pear, pear tree, Pyrus communis | Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit |
Narrower | anjou | A pear with firm flesh and a green skin |
bartlett, bartlett pear | juicy yellow pear | |
bosc | greenish-yellow pear | |
seckel, seckel pear | small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear | |
Broader | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
pome, false fruit | A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part | |
Spanish | pera | |
Catalan | pera |
Meaning | Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties. | |
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Synonyms | pear tree, Pyrus communis | |
Member of | Pyrus, genus Pyrus | fruit trees native to the Old World |
Parts | pear | Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties |
Broader | fruit tree | Tree bearing edible fruit |
Spanish | peral, pera | |
Catalan | pera, perera, perer, Pyrus communis |
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