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Noun: pear  pehr
  1. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
     
  2. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
    - pear tree, Pyrus communis

Sounds like: pair, pare

Derived forms: pears

Type of: edible fruit, false fruit, fruit tree, pome

Part of: genus Pyrus, Pyrus

Encyclopedia: Pear

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