balsam pear

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   tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit

   SynonymsMomordica charantia

   Broadergourd

   Part ofMomordica

Questions about balsam pear

What does balsam pear mean?

balsam pear means "tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit".

What is another word for balsam pear?

Close synonyms include Momordica charantia. 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 balsam pear a common word?

balsam pear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.