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PYRUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fruit trees native to the Old World: pears

Synonyms:

genus Pyrus; Pyrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pyrus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Pyrus"):

pear; pear tree; Pyrus communis (Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties)

Holonyms ("Pyrus" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

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