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PEAR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pear" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

false fruit; pome (a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pear"):

bosc (greenish-yellow pear)

anjou (a pear with firm flesh and a green skin)

bartlett; bartlett pear (juicy yellow pear)

seckel; seckel pear (small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear)

Holonyms ("pear" is a part of...):

pear; pear tree; Pyrus communis (Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties

Synonyms:

pear; pear tree; Pyrus communis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pear" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "pear"):

pear (sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties)

Holonyms ("pear" is a member of...):

genus Pyrus; Pyrus (fruit trees native to the Old World: pears)

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