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

1. United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
   - Robert Peary, Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary

Sounds like: pained, panedr, pea

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

Part of: genus Pyrus, Pyrus

Encyclopedia: Pear, West Virginia