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pear tree

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Noun1.pear treepear tree - Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
Pyrus communis, pear
pear - sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
genus Pyrus, Pyrus - fruit trees native to the Old World: pears
fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit


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LITTLE Benjamin said, "It spoils people's clothes to squeeze under a gate; the proper way to get in, is to climb down a pear tree.
The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Potter, Beatrix View in context
"AEneas Sylvius," say they, "after giving a very circumstantial account of one contested with great obstinacy by a great and small species on the trunk of a pear tree," adds that "this action was fought in the pontificate of Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence of Nicholas Pistoriensis, an eminent lawyer, who related the whole, history of the battle with the greatest fidelity.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
When we went into the garden I saw in one corner of it an old stone bench arched over by a couple of pear trees and all grown about with grass and violets.
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