pear tree

See also: peartree and Pear Tree

English

Alternative forms

• peartree

Etymology

From Middle English peretre, pertre, pere tre; equivalent to pear +‎ tree.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛə ˈtɹiː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛɚ ˈtɹi/

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Noun

pear tree (plural pear trees)

1. A tree of the genus Pyrus, which bears the pears as fruits.
   • 1780, unknown author, Twelve Days of Christmas:

     On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
     A partridge in a pear tree

Hypernyms

• tree

Derived terms

• and a partridge in a pear tree

Translations

tree of the genus Pyrus

Arabic: شَجَرَةُ اَلكُمَّثْرَى f (šajaratu al-kummaṯrā) Armenian: տանձենի (hy) (tanjeni) Aromanian: per Asturian: peral (ast) m or f Basque: udareondo (eu), madariondo (eu) Belarusian: гру́ша f (hrúša) Bulgarian: кру́ша (bg) f (krúša) Catalan: perer m, perera f Chinese: Mandarin: 梨樹 / 梨树 (zh) (líshù) Czech: hrušeň (cs) f, hruška (cs) f Dutch: perenboom (nl) Finnish: päärynäpuu (fi), päärynä (fi) French: poirier (fr) m Friulian: piruçâr m Galician: pereira (gl) f German: Birnbaum (de) m Hungarian: körtefa (hu) Italian: pero (it) m Japanese: 梨の木 (なしのき, nashi no ki) Macedonian: кру́ша (mk) f (krúša) Middle English: peretre, pirie Old English: pyrige Plautdietsch: Bäarenboom m Polish: grusza (pl) f Portuguese: pereira (pt) f Punjabi: ਨਾਸ਼ਪਾਤੀ (pa) f (nāśpātī), ਨਾਖ f (nākh) Romanian: păr (ro) Russian: гру́ша (ru) f (grúša) Slovak: hruška (sk) f Slovene: hruška (sl) n Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kšuška f, kšušcyna f Spanish: peral (es) m Swedish: päronträd (sv) n Turkish: armut ağacı Ukrainian: гру́ша (uk) f (hrúša)

References

• pear tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• repartee, rerepeat, repartée, rape tree, repeater