Chinese white pear

English

A Chinese white pear

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Noun

Chinese white pear (plural Chinese white pears)

1. The fruit of a hybrid northeast-Asian pear species, Pyrus × bretschneideri, with the crisp, juicy texture of an apple pear, but with shape and flavor more like those of the European pear.
2. A tree producing such fruit.

Translations

fruit

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鴨梨 / 鸭梨 (aap³ lei^4-2)

  Mandarin: 白梨 (zh) (báilí), 鴨梨 / 鸭梨 (zh) (yālí)

• Finnish: kiinanvalkopäärynä
• French: poire Ya f, poire blanche f