1. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
   "She bit into the ripe pear, savouring its juicy sweetness"
    
2. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
   "The ancient pear tree still produced fruit after a century";
   - pear tree, Pyrus communis

Sounds like: pained, panedr, pea

Derived forms: pears

Type of: edible fruit, false fruit, fruit tree, pome

Part of: genus Pyrus, Pyrus

Encyclopedia: Pear, West Virginia