pear

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

2. 2
   noun

   Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit

3. 3
   noun

   An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.

4. 4
   noun

   A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

5. 5
   noun

   The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).

6. 6
   noun

   Choke pear (a torture device).

7. 7
   noun

   avocado, alligator pear

8. 8
   noun

   A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Etymology

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”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר…