pear
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- noun
- /pɛr/
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pera
- I picked prickly pear fruit and tasted it, then we drove on, maybe to Yarnell.
- a pear tree
- apples and pears
- oranges and pears
People were making pear Jelly, pear pear pie.
- People were making pear Jelly, pear pear pie.
- The head of the tree is heavy, the pears are not ripe.
- Everybody likes pears, so you know that.
- They have less flavor when you're eating pears or pumpkin in season.
- You typically only see that in apples, pears, almonds, maybe persimmons.
- Not grapes, but like pears, Quince, things like that.
- So apple and pineapple and pear are my favorite.
- Your Peach trees, your cherry trees, even your pear trees have quite fast root growth.
Examples
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My favorite mix is apple, pear, spinach, and mango.
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So we had a really late frost and this Bartlett pear was in mid bloom.
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Everybody likes pears, so you know that.
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So apple and pineapple and pear are my favorite.
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We have a partridge in a pear tree.
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I haven't eaten as much pear, you know what I mean?
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It's topped with sour cream and caramelized apples and pears from Russia.
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For example, he reported on pear blight in 1873 and on new fruits in 1879.
Academic text (2015) -
For dessert, I enjoyed a slice of sweet pear topped with a drizzle of honey.
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She added diced pear to the salad for a refreshing flavor.
Compounds
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A pear-shaped fruit from a cactus covered in small sharp spines that people eat or use to make drinks
- UK
A tree from the West Indies that makes a fruit like a mango often pickled to eat with meals
- Indian
A long green vegetable with bumpy skin and a bitter taste used in Asian cooking
- Archaic
A soft fruit with rough green or dark skin, yellow-green flesh, and a large seed in the middle
How Juicy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pear comes from an old European word for the fruit, seen in Latin pirum and Spanish pera. So today pear means the sweet, juicy 'fruit' and also the 'tree' that grows it.