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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:
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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