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Definition of Pear shell

Pear shell
Pear Pear (p[^a]r), n. [OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F. poire. Cf. Perry.] (Bot.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight. (a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect (Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter. --A. J. Downing. (b) (Zo["o]l.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose larv[ae] bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither. Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants (Pome[ae]), characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry, and hawthorn. Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel. Pear shell (Zo["o]l.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the shape. Pear slug (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.

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- prickly pear, Araluen pear, Australian pest pear, common pest pear, erect prickly pear, ****ndah pear, s**** mound pricklypear, sour prickly pear, spiny...
- customs and beliefs (1916). The Evolution of the Dragon (1919) (with T. H. Pear) S**** Shock and its Lessons (1917, 2nd edition) Tutankhamen and the Discovery...
- a pseudocarp or false fruit). What appears to be the fruit is an oval or pear-shaped structure, a hypocarpium, that develops from the pedicel and the receptacle...
- the late 19th century. Chayote is also sometimes referred to as "vegetable pear".[verification needed] in Indonesia there are several names of chayote, labu...
- latterly in Bradford. Prof. Emeritus Pear died on 14 May 1972. Grafton Elliot Smith; Pear, Tom Hatherley, 1886- (1917), S**** shock and its lessons (2d ed.)...
- The gastropod s**** is part of the body of many gastropods, including snails, a kind of mollusc. The s**** is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators...
- name the pear-shaped cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The s**** of these...
- aforementioned regions are falsely labelled as F. spirata. Pear welks can reach 15 cm (5.9 in). The s**** is thin, usually with a long siphonal canal and a short...
- Pear custard pie...
- axes. Four of the five d orbitals for n = 3 look similar, each with four pear-shaped lobes, each lobe tangent at right angles to two others, and the centers...