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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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