Synonyms for pear
pɛərpear

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1. pearnoun

   sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

   Synonyms:
   pear tree

2. pear, pear tree, Pyrus communisnoun

   Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties

   Synonyms:
   pear tree

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1. • Edible Fruit
   • Fruit Tree
   • Pome

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1. List of paraphrases for "pear":

   pears, lei, sucker, eri, pera, worm

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1. Paula Deen:

   I’ve been trying to do this for years, And one of my most asked questions out there — whether it’s in person, through the mail, or on Facebook — is ‘Paula, where did you get that top? Where did you get that outfit?’ So I wanted to do something like this because I understand the body that’s not perfect. You see all these things made for bananas. Well, I’m an apple. Most women are an apple or a pear. There are not many bananas.

2. Publilius Syrus:

   You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

3. T.S. Eliot:

   Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.

4. Tom Cech:

   If you don't have irrigation in Colorado -- in the West -- all you're going to grow is probably prickly pear cactus and sagebrush, water is key to that economic growth, not only in Colorado or Western Nebraska, but in California and the West in general.

5. Mao Zedong:

   If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.