| 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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