pear : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
  alligator pear; avocado; aguacate.
  

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• (Bot.), a corruption of Avocado pear. See Avocado.

Webster 1913

• noun West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango
  Grias cauliflora; anchovy pear.
  
• noun West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled
  anchovy pear.
  

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An*cho"vy pear`

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1. (Bot.) A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

Webster 1913

• noun West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango
  Grias cauliflora; anchovy pear.
  

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• noun a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
  alligator pear; avocado; aguacate.
  

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• noun tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit
  Momordica charantia.
  

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• noun juicy yellow pear
  bartlett.
  

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Choke" pear`

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1. A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
2. A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. Low S. Richardson.

Webster 1913

• a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

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• (Bot.), a fragrant kind of pear much resembling the Seckel pear.

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• noun tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp
  Xylomelum pyriforme; native pear.
  

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• noun a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
  fire blight.
  

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• . (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.

Webster 1913

• (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.

Webster 1913

• (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.

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• noun erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
  blackthorn; Crataegus calpodendron; pear haw; Crataegus tomentosa.
  

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• noun erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
  blackthorn; Crataegus calpodendron; pear haw; Crataegus tomentosa.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; so called from the shape.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.

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• noun Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
  pear; Pyrus communis.
  

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• adjective satellite having a round shape tapered at one end
  
• adjective satellite (of sounds) full and rich
  rotund; round; orotund.
  
  • orotund tones
  • the rotund and reverberating phrase
  • pear-shaped vowels

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Pear"-shaped` adjective

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1. Of the form of a pear.

Webster 1913

• noun cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
  prickly pear.
  
• noun round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O. vulgaris, O. Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India.

Webster 1913

• noun cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
  prickly pear.
  

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• noun West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled
  anchovy pear.
  

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Sea" pear`

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.

Webster 1913

• noun small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear
  seckel.
  

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• (Bot.), the red ovoid fruit of a West Indian plant of the genus Cereus (C. triangularia). It has a sweetish flavor, and is slightly acid, pleasant, and cooling. Also, the plant bearing the fruit.

Webster 1913

• a kind of pear that keeps well in winter, or that does not ripen until winter.

Webster 1913

• noun tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp
  Xylomelum pyriforme; native pear.
  

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• (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; called also wooden pear.

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