woody pear

1. 1.

   tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp

   Synonymsnative pearXylomelum pyriforme

   Broadershrub

   Part ofXylomelum

Questions about woody pear

What does woody pear mean?

woody pear means "tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp".

What is another word for woody pear?

Close synonyms include native pear, Xylomelum pyriforme. 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 woody pear a common word?

woody 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.