pears
SayPAIRZUS/pɛɚz/UK/pɛəz/AUS/peːz/
- 1Plural of pear.
She sliced two ripe pears into the salad.
The orchard's pears ripen later than its apples.
Note
A regular plural made with a plain -s, and it counts whatever the singular can name: fruit in a bowl, trees in an orchard, even the choke pears once used for torture. The timber usually goes by pearwood or pear wood instead. Context matters in Jamaica, where a pear is an avocado, the alligator pear. There, a basket of ripe pears may hold no pears at all.
pears is a form of pear
pear, noun: The edible fruit of the pear tree, resembling an apple but usually narrowing toward the stem end. Full entry
- Forms
- pearpears plural
- Spelling
- pear → pears: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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