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Pear

//pɛə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia.
Noun
  1. 1
    An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
  2. 2
    An indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand. plural, plural-only
  3. 3
    sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties wordnet
  4. 4
    A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
  5. 5
    Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties wordnet
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  1. 6
    The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
  2. 7
    Choke pear (a torture device).
  3. 8
    avocado, alligator pear Jamaica
  4. 9
    A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Etymology

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר (bar, “pear”), French poire (“pear”).

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