pyrus

English Thesaurus

1. fruit trees native to the Old World: pears (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	pear, pear tree, pyrus communis,
definition	:	Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family rosaceae, rosaceae, rose family,
definition	:	a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens (noun.plant)