Meaning

noun sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

noun Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties

originEtymology tree Vulgar Latin pirabor. Proto-West Germanic *peru Old English pere Middle English pere English pear From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”),…

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