Crossword clues for pear
pear
- Tree in a carol
- Tapering fruit
- Seckel, e.g
- Seckel or Bosc
- Sangria ingredient
- Obovoid pome
- Limousine, e.g
- Fruit with a core
- Fruit salad fruit
- Edible fruit
- Comice, e.g
- Bottom-heavy shape
- Big-bottomed fruit
- Apple relative
- Apple cousin
- A fruit to poach
- Wood used for kitchen spoons
- Still life favorite
- Shape of some tones
- Seckel or Bartlett
- Mandolin shape
- It can be poached
- Fruit that's often found in fruit cocktail
- Fruit mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- Fruit in fruit cocktail
- Fruit a lute is shaped like
- Compote flavor
- Compote component, perhaps
- Comice, for one
- Christmas tree of song
- Certain edible fruit
- Certain body shape
- Bottom-heavy fruit
- Bergamot, e.g
- Anjou or Bartlett
- Alligator --- (avocado)
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas" tree
- Unflattering shape
- Tree for a Yule bird
- The gallbladder is shaped like one
- Tarte Bourdaloue fruit
- Starkrimson or Concorde
- Sorbitol source
- Shapely fruit
- Shape of perfect tones
- Shape for a tone
- Seckel, for one
- Seckel e.g
- Rose family tree
- Relative of the apple
- Quince look-alike
- Prickly item
- Prickly ___ (variety of cactus)
- Popular compote fruit
- Pipa shape
- Partridge's tree, in a Christmas carol
- Partridge's tree, in a carol
- Partridge's carol tree
- Partridge family tree?
- One translation of the Hungarian word "korte" (another being "lightbulb")
- One fruit that sounds like two
- Nectar-bearing fruit
- Nectar variety
- Napiform : turnip :: pyriform : ___
- Kind of Christmas tree?
- Kieffer ____
- Kesha "Grow a ___"
- Juicy ___ (Jelly Belly flavor)
- Item in some brandy bottles
- Item in a Harry & David basket
- Grey Goose "La Poire" flavoring
- Green or yellow fruit
- Green Anjou, e.g
- Gift basket item
- Fruit-cup chunk
- Fruit with Bartlett and Bosc varieties
- Fruit with an obovate shape
- Fruit with a bottom-heavy shape
- Fruit with a Bartlett variety
- Fruit with a "check the neck" ripeness test
- Fruit used to describe a large-hipped physique
- Fruit that's rounded at the bottom
- Fruit that's also a body shape
- Fruit that may be poached in wine
- Fruit that flavors liqueurs
- Fruit that comes in Bartlett and Anjou varieties
- Fruit that comes in Anjou and Bartlett varieties
- Fruit that can be an Anjou or Bosc
- Fruit shaped like a bell
- Fruit served with brandy
- Fruit poached in red wine
- Fruit on some slot machines
- Fruit in many a gift basket
- Fruit in a holiday gift box
- Fruit in a fruit basket
- Fruit favorite
- Fruit basket item
- Fruit basket fruit
- Flavor of some Woodchuck hard ciders
- Flavor of some eau de vie
- Fine wood for woodwinds
- Fall farmer's market find
- Elvis Costello's is "Sweet"
- Elvis Costello "Sweet ___"
- Dessert for a dieter
- Cousin to an apple
- Cornice, e.g
- Common still-life item
- Christmas tree?
- Carol word sung 12 times
- Broad-bottomed fruit
- Brandied fruit
- Bottom-heavy relative of an apple
- Bartlett fruit
- Bartlett ___ (fruit with yellow-green skin)
- Asian ___ (fruit in a sleeve)
- Apple's kin
- Anjou, Bartlett, or Comice
- Anjou thing
- Anjou item
- Anjou e.g
- An earring may be shaped like one
- Alligator, for one
- Alligator ___ (another name for an avocado)
- Alfred Hitchcock-shaped fruit
- A golf green may be shaped like one
- ___ drop (British sweet treat)
- Possible source of Conference’s sparkling repartee
- Branches stocking first Christmas present
- Earth's shape
- Egg : oval :: _____ : pyriform
- Seckel or Anjou
- Still-life subject
- Nectar flavor
- Fruit baked in wine
- Fruit basket selection
- Fall fruit
- Anjou or Seckel
- Anjou, e.g.
- Oviform : egg :: pyriform : ___
- Fruit cooked in cream and sugar
- Syrup flavor
- Fruit cocktail fruit
- Liqueur flavor
- Compote fruit
- Prickly ____ cactus
- Nectar source
- Lute shape
- Gallbladder's shape
- Anjou, for one
- Orchard item
- Kind of orchard
- Alligator ___ (avocado)
- Brandy flavoring
- Kind of brandy
- Tree in a Christmas carol
- Kind of nectar
- Tree in a Christmas song
- Popular brandy flavor
- Peelable fruit
- Still-life item
- Shape of a mandolin's body
- Bartlett, e.g.
- Tree in bloom in a Van Gogh painting
- Orchard product
- Dentiform : tooth :: pyriform : ___
- Brandy fruit
- Schnapps flavor
- Partridge's preferred tree
- Schnapps choice
- Compote ingredient, often
- Fruit in a still-life painting
- Jelly Belly flavor
- Fruit that's sometimes poached
- Partridge's tree, in a Christmas song
- Juicy fruit
- Fruit often seen in still lifes
- It may be poached
- Word with prickly or alligator
- Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
- Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit
- Widely cultivated in many varieties
- Bosc, e.g.
- Fruit-basket item
- Yellow fruit
- Anjou or Cornice
- Cornice, e.g.
- Anjou or alligator
- Bosc or Anjou fruit
- Homophone for pair
- Bosc or Bartlett
- Cornice or Bosc
- Fleshy fruit
- Bulb-shaped fruit
- Anjou or Kieffer
- Bartlett, for one
- Bergamot, e.g.
- Bartlett or Seckel
- Partridge's tree?
- Anjou or comice
- "The ___ Tree," Millay poem
- Tree for a partridge, in a Christmas song
- Prickly ___ (the sabra)
- Kieffer or Seckel
- Anjou or Tyson
- Tree of the rose family
- Bosc or Seckel
- Garber or Bartlett
- Burrel or Seckel
- " . . . partridge in a ___ tree"
- Distinctively shaped fruit
- Diamond shape
- Bartlett or Bosc
- Fruit tree
- Anjou or Bosc
- Fruit or tree
- Succulent fruit
- Millay's "The ___ Tree"
- Kieffer or Anjou
- Seckel, e.g.
- Conference fruit?
- Sounds like couple’s type of fruit tree
- Something swelling lower down plughole?
- Fruit or vegetable taken by rook?
- Fruit and vegetable recipe
- Fruit and veg right
- Fruit and veg recipe
- Fruit are squished when put under pressure
- Portion of corn served with soft fruit
- Theme answer
- Orchard produce
- Orchard fruit
- Still-life fruit
- Still life subject
- Anjou, e.g
- Dessert fruit
- Tree fruit
- Still-life object
- Bosc, e.g
- Bartlett, e.g
- Lute-shaped fruit
- Type of fruit
- Summer fruit
- Still life fruit
- Bosc, for one
- Fruit-cocktail ingredient
- Fruit-bearing tree
- Common still life subject
- Brandy base
- Quince's cousin
- It's shaped like a bell
- High-fiber fruit
- Fruit in the rose family
- Body shape of the hip-heavy
- Bell-shaped fruit
- Bartlett or Anjou
- "... and a partridge in a ___ tree"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pear \Pear\ (p[^a]r), n. [OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F. poire. Cf. Perry.] (Bot.) 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.
(Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect ( Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter.
--A. J. Downing.-
(Zo["o]l.) A very small beetle ( Xyleborus pyri) whose larv[ae] bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither.
Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants ( Pome[ae]), characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry, and hawthorn.
Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel.
Pear shell (Zo["o]l.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the shape.
Pear slug (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English pere, peru "pear," common West Germanic (Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pere, Old High German pira, bira, Dutch peer), from Vulgar Latin *pera, variant of Latin pira, plural (taken for fem. singular) of pirum "pear," a loan word from an unknown source. It likely shares an origin with Greek apion "pear," apios "pear tree."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. 2 (''also'' '''pear tree''') A type of fruit tree (''Pyrus communis''). 3 The wood of the pear tree. 4 choke pear (a torture device).
WordNet
n. sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: pear tree, Pyrus communis]
Wikipedia
Pear ( Serbian Cyrillic: Пеар) is a village located in the Užice municipality of Serbia. In the 2002 census, the village had a population of 537.
Category:Užice Category:Populated places in Zlatibor District
The PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR, is a repository of PHP software code. Stig S. Bakken founded the PEAR project in 1999 to promote the re-use of code that performs common functions. The project seeks to provide a structured library of code, maintain a system for distributing code and for managing code packages, and promote a standard coding style. Though community-driven, the PEAR project has a PEAR Group which serves as the governing body and takes care of administrative tasks. Each PEAR code package comprises an independent project under the PEAR umbrella. It has its own development team, versioning-control and documentation.
A pear is a tree of the genus Pyrus and the fruit of that tree, edible in some species
Pear may refer to:
- Guacamole, a fruit that is referred to as "pear" in certain countries
- Pear-shaped, a metaphorical term with several meanings, all in reference to the shape of a (European) pear, i.e. tapering towards the top
Pear or Pears may also refer to:
- Pear, West Virginia, a community in the United States
- Pears Cyclopaedia, a one-volume encyclopædia published in the United Kingdom
- Pears (surname)
- Pear, a human Female body shape
- Pear Tree House, a Civil defence control centre in London
- PearPC, an open-source PowerPC emulator
- Choke pear (torture) or Pear of Anguish, an implement of torture
- Pear (Užice), a village in the vicinity of Užice, Serbia
- Pears soap, a brand of soap
- Worcestershire County Cricket Club, who have the traditional nickname of the 'Pears', based on their badge and the Worcestershire county emblem of a pear tree or three black pears
- Pear people, an indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand
- Pear language, an endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia
- Pear (color), a shade of green
- Pear (Annoying Orange), a character in Annoying Orange
- Pear (company), a sponsorship and fundraising company
PEAR may stand for:
- PHP Extension and Application Repository, a computer programming framework and distribution system for PHP code components
- polymerase-endonuclease amplification reaction
- Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, a now disbanded program which attempted to study the paranormal
- Processing Engine ARchive, a standard format for packaging UIMA components
- Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda, the French name for the Anglican Church of Rwanda
Pear is an online sponsorship and grassroots fundraising platform that connects local groups with national brands through social engagements. It enables businesses to advertise through hyperlocal sponsorship programs; for example, the Mondelez International brand, Ritz Bits, sponsoring youth soccer teams or Allstate sponsoring groups in specific community markets.
Local organizations and teams earn custom apparel, donations, or other services provided by brands, through completing online tasks, such as liking a brand’s Facebook page or watching a short YouTube video. For every online task completed, the group is awarded funds towards their specific fundraising goal. There are over 300 kinds of groups and organizations that can use Pear: events, college groups, professional organizations, clubs and more.
Pear was founded by Jared Golden and Amish Tolia in 2009 as the Apparel Media Group. They developed the idea when they ran a campus apparel company in school and often heard from campus groups that they would like a brand to sponsor them. The company raised $1.8 million by the end of 2011, and was acquired by CustomInk in 2012.
Usage examples of "pear".
These juices, together with those of the pear, the peach, the plum, and other such fruits, if taken without adding cane sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach rather than provoke it: they become converted chemically into alkaline carbonates, which correct sour fermentation.
Who would not give back the luscious pear and peach to their native acritude, rather than subject the highest forms of vegetable life to such irreverence?
So inventing by the light of inner consciousness alone, he worked up tiny doses of the grey ambergris into mutton fat, coloured it faintly pink with cochineal insects he caught on the prickly pear hedges, added a little crude borax as a preservative, and so produced a cosmetic that was no better and little worse than the thousand other nostrums of its kind in daily use elsewhere.
The banks were lined with flowering peach, and chiching trees with violet flowers growing directly from the trunks and branches, and behind them was a shady bamboo grove, and then the pear trees, and then a thousand apricot trees that were flaming with a million scarlet blossoms.
Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.
There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom--apple, plum, pear, cherry.
The maid had set out five bone china plates holding salads that combined Bibb lettuce, avocado slices, and wedges of ripe pear with a crumbling of Gorgonzola.
Zero looked at Bowler, who nodded gravely as he bit into a pear himself.
South American plant, this botanical insecticide was discovered in the early 1940s and has proved good for control of codling moths in apple, pear and quince trees.
He nibbles on the salad nicoise, he polishes off the galantine, and he uncurls the spiral pears!
From the bark of the stem and root of the apple, pear and plum trees, a glucoside is to be obtained in small crystals, which possesses the peculiar property of producing artificial diabetes in animals to whom it is given.
No sign that human life had ever existed out here between the thorny lechuguilla and prickly pear flats encouraged her.
Lizzie explained that mirliton was a vegetable pear and alligator pears were avocados.
You recall your delight in conversing with the nurseryman, and looking at his illustrated catalogues, where all the pears are drawn perfect in form, and of extra size, and at that exact moment between ripeness and decay which it is so impossible to hit in practice.
There were rounded plums and oval indeterminate fruit, some long and fluted like a banana, others ovular and end-swollen like a ripe alligator pear.