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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pyrus \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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Pyrus
noun: fruit trees native to the Old World: pears [syn: {genus Pyrus}]
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