pear
/pɛr/
noun
- A sweet, juicy fruit with a rounded base and a thin green or yellow skin, typically eaten fresh or cooked.
- She sliced a ripe pear and added it to the salad.
- The pear tree in the backyard produced a huge harvest this year.
- I prefer a crisp pear over a soft one for snacking.
- A tree that bears pears.
- The old pear in the orchard is over fifty years old.
- We planted a pear in the sunny corner of the garden.
- He pruned the pear carefully to encourage more fruit.