pear

1. n. The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Source: opted

2. n. sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties Source: wordnet

3. n. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties Source: wordnet

4. The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight. (a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect (Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter. A. J. Downing. (b) (Zoöl.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose larvæ bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither. -- Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants (Pomeæ), characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry, and hewthorn. -- Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel. Pear shell (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the shape. -- Pear slug (Zoöl.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree. Source: webster

5. The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyruscommunis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also,the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight.(a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, bothcausing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minuteinsect (Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sapin winter. A. J. Downing. (b) (Zoöl.) A very small beetle (Xyleboruspyri) whose larvæ bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them towither.-- Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants (Pomeæ),characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and,combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple,pear, quince, service berry, and hewthorn.-- Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring theexhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consistingin part of a pear-shaped glass vessel. Pear shell (Zoöl.), any marinegastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- socalled from the shape.-- Pear slug (Zoöl.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injuriousto the foliage of the pear tree. Source: adambom

6. n:100 n. sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties n. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties Source: ecdict

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