Found 2 items, similar to Woody pear.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: woody pear
woody pear
n : tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp
[syn:
native pear,
Xylomelum pyriforme]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Woody pear
Woody
\Wood"y\, a.
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
“The woody
wilderness.” --Bryant.
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Secret shades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
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2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
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3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.]
“Woody nymphs,
fair Hamadryades.” --Spenser.
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Woody fiber. (Bot.)
(a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous
tubes tapering at each end.
(b) A single wood cell. See under
Wood. --Goodale.
Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See
Bittersweet, 3
(a) .
Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit
of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus
Xylomelum; -- called also
wooden pear.
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