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pear tree

pear tree

3 1.0
A tree that makes sweet, juicy fruit called pears
  • noun
  • /pɛr tri/
translation icon : peral
  • I stood looking out the glass wall at a small flowering pear tree.
  • an old pear tree
  • thousand pear trees

So this pear tree is done and it's going to love it.

Examples

  • We had the apple tree in the front yard, the pear tree in the back yard.

    Blog text (24)

  • When we found this house twenty-three years ago, an old pear tree clung to the ridge behind the kitchen.

    Academic text (1994)

  • I loved that pear tree, convinced that God intended it to grace my life.

    Academic text (2000)

  • When breakfast was cooked, Ruby carried his plate to the table under the pear tree.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • When we came to the pear tree again, I asked my brother if he felt like eating a pear.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • There's a short line of pear trees between the cafe and the hospital.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The yard was at the rear of the synagogue, and a pear tree occupied its center.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The first thing she saw was the white-blooming Bradford pear tree filling her bedroom window.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The meadow was a more vivid green, the pear tree glowed, and the blackbird's song was louder and sweeter.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The yard was at the rear of the synagogue, and a pear tree occupied its center.

Synonyms

pear
vspear tree
110 1.0

A tree that produces a sweet, juicy fruit with a rounded bottom and a narrow top

focuses on the cultivated Eurasian plant producing that fruit rather than the fruit itself
fruit tree
vspear tree
13 1.0

A tree that grows fruit you can eat

refers to this specific Eurasian cultivated plant producing sweet gritty fruit
Pyrus communis
vspear tree
  • Specialized
7.4

A tree commonly grown in Europe and Asia that makes sweet, juicy pears with a slightly grainy texture

is the broader cultivated plant term rather than the strict species name

How Tall

woody pear
  • Australian
9.9
pear tree
3 1.0
sapling
16 2.7
seedling
20 2.8

Surface Forms

pear tree singular
pear trees plural

Morphology

pear + tree

The meaning 'a tree that produces pears' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'pear' (the fruit/tree) with 'tree' (a woody plant). This literal noun-noun compound follows standard compositional patterns found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Pear tree comes from the simple picture of a pear and a tree. People named the tree after the fruit it grows, so pear tree still means 'a tree that produces pears'.