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# pear

«pear» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet, juicy fruit, narrow at the top and wide at the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (pear, pears)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pear is a sweet, juicy fruit, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with a green, yellow or brown skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#m1)

2) A pear tree is the tree that grows pears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#m2)

3) «Pear-shaped» means narrow at the top and wide at the bottom; «go pear-shaped» (UK) means go wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a fruit on the table; a counted thing («Each bag has 5 pears»); in everyday life a healthy snack; in science pears grow from flowers on pear trees and hold seeds in the core

### examples

- I put one pear on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x1)
- Ana picked 7 pears and gave 2 to Jo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x2)
- Each bag has 5 pears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x3)
- This pear is soft and juicy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x4)
- Pears grow on trees in the orchard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x5)
- I had a pear and some cheese for a snack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x6)
- Cut the pear and take out the core. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x7)
- A light bulb is pear-shaped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x8)
- “Give me another basket of pears,” he said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/#x9)

### note

A fruit; counts in «how many fruits». No operation clue. Do not mix «pear» (fruit) with «pair» (two of the same: a pair of socks) or «pare» (to cut the skin off): all three sound the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pear» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pear/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.