anchovy pear

Questions about anchovy pear

What does anchovy pear mean?

anchovy pear means "West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for anchovy pear?

Close synonyms include anchovy pear tree, Grias cauliflora, river pear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anchovy pear a common word?

anchovy pear is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.