dictionary help<botany> The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight.
<botany> The larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.
Origin: OE. Pere, AS. Peru, L. Pirum: cf. F. Poire. Cf. Perry.
(01 Mar 1998)
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