pear.
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
Meaning & usage
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
Choke pear (a torture device).
avocado, alligator pear
A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Vulgar Latin pirabor. Proto-West Germanic *peru Old English pere Middle English pere English pear 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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