Noun:

नाशपातियां, नाशपाती का पेड़, नाशपाती,

pear's Usage Examples:

The former attacks apple and pear; the latter, which selects orange and citron, was introduced into America from Australia, and carried ruin before it in some orange districts until its natural enemy, the lady-bird beetle, Vedalia cardinalis, was also imported.

- Prickly Pear (Opuntia vulgaris).

The mango, lichen, pear and orange are indigenous, and several fruits and esculents have been introduced.

It is not possible to enumerate here even the principal styles of ishime, but mention may be made of the zara-maki (broad-cast), in which the surface is finely but irregularly pitted after the manner of the face of a stone; the nashi-ji (pear-ground), in which we have a surface like the rind of a pear; the hari-ishime (needle ishime), where the indentations are so minute that they seem to have been made with the point of a needle; the gama-ishime, which is intended to imitate the skin of a toad; the tsuya-ishime, produced with a chisel sharpened so that its traces have a lustrous appearance; the ore-liuchi (broken-tool), a peculiar kind obtained with a jagged tool; and the gozam, which resembles the plaited surface of a fine straw mat.

The form of the pear and of the apple respectively, although usually characteristic enough, is not by itself sufficient to distinguish them, for there are pears which cannot by form alone be distinguished from apples, and apples which cannot by superficial appearance be recognized from pears.

The name wooden pear is applied to the fruits of Xylomelum (nat.

The pear is subject to several diseases caused by fungi.

Prickly pear (opuntia) hedges are as frequent as in Sicily.

The fruit of the pear is produced on spurs, which appear on shoots more than one year old.

The caroub tree and the prickly pear are extensively cultivated.

Synonyms:

bartlett pear, anjou, bartlett, pome, false fruit, seckel, Pyrus communis, edible fruit, pear tree, bosc, seckel pear,

Antonyms:

top, bottom, praise, angular, thin,