Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pyrus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pyrus \Py"rus\, n. [L. pyrus, or better pirus, pear tree.]
(Bot.)
A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit.
It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb,
and mountain ash.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Pyrus
n : fruit trees native to the Old World: pears [syn: {Pyrus}, {genus
Pyrus}]
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