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pear

Definition

noun: a sweet fruit that is narrow near the stem and rounded at the other end and that grows on a tree
noun: a pome fruit of a tree (genus 'Pyrus,' especially 'P. communis') of the rose family that typically has a pale green or brownish skin, a firm juicy flesh, and an oblong shape in which a broad base end tapers upward to a narrow stem end

Examples

She has a 'pear-shaped' figure. [=she has wide hips and thighs and a small chest]
She was in debt, and when she lost her job it all 'went pear-shaped'.
a 'pear-shaped' fruit

Movie quotes

(..) A kitchen garden that smells of herbs in the day, jasmine in the evening. Through the gate is a giant poplar. Figs, apples, pears. The soil, Marcus- black. - Black like my wife's hair. Grapes on the south slopes, olives on the north. (..)
2000 Gladiator