| pear | (noun) sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties | - |
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| (noun) Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: pear tree, Pyrus communis |
| pearl | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, ivory, off-white |
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| (noun) a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel | - |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, drop |
| (verb) gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | - |
| pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| pearlite | (noun) a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron | - |
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| pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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| pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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| pearly | (adjective) of a white the color of pearls | Synonyms: pearly-white |
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| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |