woody pear

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Noun

woody pear (plural woody pears)

1. The inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum.
2. The tree bearing such fruit

Synonyms

• wooden pear

Derived terms

• northern woody pear
• sandplain woody pear
• western woody pear

References

• “woody”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.