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Pear

The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

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Bartlett 76% connected

A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, an…

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Seckel 76% connected

A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.

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Pome 76% connected

A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an app…

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Acacia noun · 78% connection

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Amphibole noun · 78% connection

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Ananas noun · 78% connection

large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Apple noun · 78% connection

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

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Apricot noun · 78% connection

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Beam tree unknown · 78% connection

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Bean caper unknown · 78% connection

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophy…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Box noun · 78% connection

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Carnation noun · 78% connection

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Carrot noun · 78% connection

perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Cherry noun · 78% connection

The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the beg…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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Chokeberry noun · 78% connection

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fleshy, pome, fruit, rosaceous, tree.
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