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Webster 1913 Edition
Pyrus
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Py′rus
,Noun.
[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.
Definition 2024
Pyrus
Pyrus
Translingual
Proper noun
Pyrus f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Rosales - order; Rosaceae - family; Amygdaloideae - subfamily; Maleae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Pyrus sect. Pashia, Pyrus sect. Pyrus - sections
- Pyrus communis - type species