PEAR

noun Etymology: Middle English pere, from Old English peru, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin, plural of pirum Date: before 12th century a pome fruit of a tree (genus Pyrus, especially P. communis ) of the rose family that typically has a pale green or brownish skin, a firm juicy flesh, and an oblong shape in which a broad base end tapers upward to a narrow stem end, a tree bearing ~s