Noun: pear tree
| Singular | pear tree |
| Plural | pear trees |
Sample Sentences
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On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
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A partridge in a pear tree [1780, unknown author, Twelve Days of Christmas:]
Nouns inflected like pear tree
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English peretre, pertre, pere tre; equivalent to pear + tree. See: Middle English Nouns '
peretre'.