pear
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Definition of pear
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
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noun
- 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).
- (Jamaica)avocado, alligator pear
- A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
- (plural, plural-only)An indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand.
name
- An endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia.
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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…
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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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