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pear

  • noun
  • pâr

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

Other meanings

  1. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

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

A kind of

  • fruit tree

Example sentences

  • “The pears aren't quite ripe yet.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “A red fig and a black one, add prickly pears!”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

Word history

From Old English "pere".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “pear” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.