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pyrus
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pyrus may refer to: The genus of the pear tree (under some taxonomy, sometimes including species of genera Malus and Sorbus ) Main//Pyrus DMS , a Document Management System The PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) installer, requiring at least ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyrus \Py"rus\, n. [L. pyrus, or better pirus, pear tree.] (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.
Usage examples of pyrus.
Keeping his gaze on his hands, Djaper rolled the pa pyrus into a smaller tube.
The botanical name of an apple tree is Pyrus Malus, of which schoolboys are wont to make ingenious uses by playing on the latter word.
And hanging over the oak fences lilac and laburnum, and red thorn, and syringa, and purple buddleia, and pyrus floribunda.