pear tree

Questions about pear tree

What is another word for pear tree?

It depends which pear tree you mean. In the sense “Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties”, the synonyms are pear, Pyrus communis. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pear tree?

WordNet records no antonym for pear tree. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pear tree come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pear tree

• Full entry for pear treeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pear treeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.