Definition of "pear-tree" [pear-tree]

• The tree that produces the pear. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As he was thus muttering, his eye fell upon the branch of a pear-tree which drooped down for want of support, and at once forgetting his haste, the old man stopped and set seriously about binding it up."
• "Daniel asked, “In what part of the garden did this befal?” and he answered, “On the eastern side, under a pear-tree.”"
• "Pensionnat Beck is a woman who was, according to legend, buried alive in a vault under the Methuselah pear-tree "for some sin against her vow" (131)."