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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
Noun: Peary  peer-ee
  1. United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
    - Robert Peary, Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary

Sounds like: pained, panedr, pea

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

Part of: genus Pyrus, Pyrus

Encyclopedia: Pear, West Virginia

Peary, Robert