Pear

Definition: Pear

Pear

Noun

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Biographical Satire

Food & Agriculture

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PEAR

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Synonym: Pear

Curvature

Adjective: curved; Verb: curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; Verb: vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; (distorted); oblique; circular.

Food

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Rotundity

Cone, conoid; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape.

Adjective: rotund; round; (circular); cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid; columnar, lumbriciform; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated, globous, globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform; campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform; fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous; tres atque rotundus; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.

Uncleanness

Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.

Crosswords: Pear

Frisian (pair), Portuguese (clog, hopple, jess).

You don't know what a pear tastes like (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin')

I don't know what a pear tastes like to you. (City of Angels; writing credit: Wim Wenders; Peter Handke)

Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like (City of Angels; writing credit: Wim Wenders; Peter Handke)

Eleven, including me. Five boys, six girls, four parents, two drivers, and a partridge in a pear tree (Home Alone; writing credit: John Hughes)

Look at me I'm a prickly pear. (Leaving Las Vegas; writing credit: Mike Figgis)

The Magic Pear Tree (1968)

Pear Brothers (1934)

The Pear Bottle (1996)

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Books

• A Bear Ate My Pear (Pop into Phonics) (reference)

• Little Pear and His Friends (reference)

• More About Little Pear. (reference)

• One Pomeranian in a Pear Tree (reference)

• Pear Flat Philosophies (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pear Shaped [IMPORT] (reference)

• Prickly Pear 12 Tracks [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Pear Harbor Pacific Warrior (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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A lunch sits on a blue tablecloth with a brown paper bag and red napkin. There are carrots, a pear, a sandwich on wheat bread with lettuce (chicken salad) and a carton of milk. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A prickly pear cactus in flower. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Prickly pear cactus at the marsh's edge. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Supermarket  Pear in the produce section of the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. . Credit: USDA.

Aerial view of apple and pear orchards near Yakima, Washington. Photo by Brian Prechtel. Credit: USDA ARS News.

ARS' Program manager for the areawide pest management effort, entomologist Carrol Calkins, discusses the placement of codling moth pheromone dispensers in a pear orchard with technician Brad Higbee (left) and grower Dale Olsen (right). Credit: USDA ARS News.

Blake's Pride...A tasty, high-quality, fire-blight-resistant pear. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Front row, center: Shining among nine other advanced pear selections now getting their mettle tested at several U.S. locations, Potomac was released in May 1993. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

A barbed-wire fence, Prickly pear cacti, and a cow in the background. Credit: Beth Perault.

A flower in bloom on a Prickly Pear cactus. Credit: Unknown.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It is flavor that lets us know whether we are eating a pear or an apple. (references)

For example, eat half a pear instead of a whole pear. Eat only very small portions of oranges and melons. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "pear": alligator pear ♦ Anchovy pear ♦ anchovy pear tree ♦ avocado pear ♦ balsam pear ♦ bartlett pear ♦ Cactus pear (prickly pear) ♦ Choke pear ♦ Garlic pear tree ♦ musk pear ♦ native pear ♦ pear blight ♦ pear family ♦ pear gauge ♦ pear ginger ♦ pear haw ♦ pear hawthorn ♦ pear juice ♦ pear oil ♦ pear shape ♦ pear shell ♦ pear slug ♦ pear tree ♦ Pear Valley ♦ prickly pear ♦ prickly pear cactus ♦ red butter pear ♦ river pear ♦ rotten as a pear ♦ sea pear ♦ seckel pear ♦ soft pear ♦ strawberry pear ♦ vegetable pear ♦ wild pear ♦ winter pear ♦ wooden pear ♦ Woody pear. Additional references.

Beginning with "pear": pear-breeding, pear-drops, pear-like, pear-shape, Pear-shaped, pear-sized, pear-tree, pear-trees.

Ending with "pear": butter-pear, choke-pear, mother-of-pear, prickly-pear.

Containing "pear": half-pear-shaped, inverted-pear-shaped.

Afrikaans

peer. (various references)

Albanian

dardhë (Jargonelle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كمثرى شجرة الكمثرى, ‏كمثرى, ‏الإجاص. (various references)

Asturian

pera. (various references)

Basque

madari. (various references)

Bavarian

bian. (various references)

Blackfoot

ómahkínaotohton. (various references)

Bulgarian 

круша (pear tree, punching bag). (various references)

Catalan

pera. (various references)

Cebuano

peras. (various references)

Chamorro

peras. (various references)

Chinese 

梨子 . (various references)

Cornish

peren. (various references)

Czech

hruška. (various references)

Danish

pære (bulb). (various references)

Dutch

peer (bulb). (various references)

Esperanto

piro. (various references)

Faeroese

pera. (various references)

Farsi 

گلابی(گ.ش.), امرود. (various references)

Finnish

päärynä. (various references)

French

poire (perry). (various references)

Frisian

par. (various references)

German

Birne (bulb, noggin, noodle, nut, pate), Birnbaum (pear-tree). (various references)

Greek 

απίδι, αχλάδι. (various references)

Hawaiian

dardhë. (various references)

Hebrew 

אגס. (various references)

Hungarian

körte. (various references)

Indonesian

buah pir. (various references)

Italian

pera, pero (pear tree, pear-tree). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ペーパー電池 (double glazing, dragon boat, pain clinic, paint, pair, pair occupation, pair skating, pairing, pair-oar, pair-wise, paper cell, parent, pavement, pavement artist, pay, pay bridge, payday, payload specialist, payment, Pegasus, per, races with such boats, unmarried couple living together), 梨の実 , 洋梨 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ペア (pair), なしのみ, ようなし (idle, useless). (various references)

Korean 

배 (Boat, ship, Ships, Vessel). (various references)

Lombard

pira. (various references)

Macedonian

krusha. (various references)

Manx

peear. (various references)

Mohawk

katshe' kahik. (various references)

Norwegian

pære (bulb). (various references)

Occitan

pera. (various references)

Papago

pihlas. (various references)

Papiamen

pera, per. (various references)

Pig Latin

earpay.(various references)

Polish

gruszka. (various references)

Portuguese

pereira (pear-tree), pera, pêra. (various references)

Provencal

pera. (various references)

Romanian

parã, pãr (bristle, hair, head, lock, pear tree, pile, pilosity). (various references)

Romansch

pair. (various references)

Romany

ambròl. (various references)

Russian 

грушевое дерево (pear tree, pear-tree), груша грушевый, груша (punching ball). (various references)

Samoan

pea (bear). (various references)

Scottish

peur (a pear). (various references)

Sepedi

piere. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kruška. (various references)

Shona

mutongotowa (wild pear tree). (various references)

Sicilian

pira. (various references)

Spanish

pera (classy, elegant, goatee), peral (pear tree, pear-tree). (various references)

Swazi

sí-hlehle (prickly pear), lí-kotapéni (avocado pear). (various references)

Swedish

päron (jargonelle). (various references)

Turkish

armut. (various references)

Turkmen 

armyt. (various references)

Ukrainian

грушеве дерево, груша. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hình quả lê (pear-shaped, pyriform). (various references)

Welsh

gellygen. (various references)

pirorum, pirum, Pyrus communis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pear": pearl, pearlash, pearlashes, pearled, pearler, pearlers, pearlescence, pearlescences, pearlescent, pearlier, pearliest, pearling, pearlite, pearlites, pearlitic, pearlized, pearls, pearly, pearmain, pearmains, pears, peart, pearter, peartest, peartly. (additional references)

Words ending with "pear": appear, coappear, disappear, reappear, spear. (additional references)

Words containing "pear": appearance, appearances, appeared, appearing, appears, coappeared, coappearing, coappears, disappearance, disappearances, disappeared, disappearing, disappears, impearl, impearled, impearling, impearls, nonappearance, nonappearances, reappearance, reappearances, reappeared, reappearing, reappears, speared, spearer, spearers, spearfish, spearfished, spearfishes, spearfishing, speargun, spearguns, spearhead, spearheaded, spearheading, spearheads, spearing, spearman, spearmen, spearmint, spearmints, spears, spearwort, spearworts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epare, eparn, epart, oear, opear, paar, pabr, paeir, pahari, Pajari, pasar, Patar, peab, pead, peaf, peah, peam, peard, peark, pearo, Peary, peau, peav, peaw, peax, peaz, pebr, pedabro, peeer, peier, peir, pelar, Pera, Perak, peram, peran, perr, pesar, petara, Peur, pexa, phar, phea, phear, Piara, pibr, picar, Pidar, piqr, pira, Pisar, pitar, poar, Poari, podar, ponar, prear, Pregar, psar, Pucara, Pujari, Pukar, pyar, Pymar, Xpelair. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aper, pare, rape, reap.

-1 letter: ape, are, ear, era, par, pea, per, rap, rep.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re.

+1 letter: apers, apery, apres, apter, arpen, asper, caper, crape, drape, gaper, grape, japer, opera, pacer, padre, pager, paler, paper, parae, pared, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parge, parle, parse, parve, pater, paver, pawer, payer, pearl, pears, peart, perea, prase, prate, presa, raped, raper, rapes, raphe, reaps, recap, remap, repay, spare, spear, taper.

+2 letters: ampere, ampler, apercu, appear, arpens, arpent, aspers, aspire, bewrap, camper, capers, capper, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, craped, crapes, damper, dapper, depart, diaper, draped, draper, drapes, drapey, earlap, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, eparch, escarp, frappe, gapers, gasper, gawper, grapes, grapey, hamper, harped, harper, japers, japery, jasper, lapper, lapser, leaper, mapper, napery, napper, operas, pacers, packer, padder, padres, pagers, paired, palier, palmer, palter, pamper, pander, panier, panzer, papers, papery, parade, parcel, pardee, pardie, parent, pareos, parers, pareus, pareve, parged, parges, parget, paries, parked, parker, parled, parles, parley, parole, parred, parrel, parsec, parsed, parser, parses, parted, parure, passer, paster, paters, patter, patzer, pauper, pauser, pavers, pawers, pawner, payers, pearls, pearly, pedlar, pereia, petard, phrase, pirate, placer, planer, plater, player, pleura, praise, prance, prases, prated, prater, prates, praxes, prayed, prayer, preach, preact, preamp, prearm, prefab, prelaw, preman, prepay, pretax, prewar, protea, ramped, rapers, raphae, raphes, rapier, rapine, rapped, rappee, rappel, rappen, rapper, rasped, rasper, reaped, reaper, recaps, redcap, remaps, repack, repaid, repair, repand, repark, repass, repast, repave, repays, repeal, repeat, replan, replay, retape, revamp, rewrap, rhaphe, sapper, sarape, scrape, secpar, serape, seraph, shaper, sherpa, soaper, spacer, spader, spared, sparer, spares, sparge, sparse, spears, spirea, spread, tamper, tapers, tapper, tephra, teraph, threap, trapes, trepan, upbear, uprate, uprear, uptear, vamper, warped, warper, yapper, yauper, yawper, zapper.