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Apricot vs Pear - What's the difference?

apricot | pear |

As nouns the difference between apricot and pear

is that apricot is a round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside while pear is an edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.

As an adjective apricot

is of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

apricot

English

(wikipedia apricot) (Prunus armeniaca) (Prunus armeniaca)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
  • The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
  • A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
  • A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
  • the junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
  • (slang, usually in plural) A testicle.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

    • See also

    * lekvar *

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    pear

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
  • (also'' pear tree ) A type of fruit tree (''Pyrus communis ).
  • The wood of the pear tree.
  • Choke pear (a torture device).

    • Derived terms

    * alligator pear * anchovy-pear * apple-pear * apples and pears * Asian pear * avocado pear * balsam pear * butter-pear * cactus pear * Callery pear * Chinese pear, Chinese white pear * choke-pear * European pear * garlic pear * grape pear * greening-pear * hard pear * Japanese pear * Korean pear * Le Conte pear * Malvern pear * Moorcroft pear * Nashi pear * pear-apple * pear blight * pear drop * pear-encrinite * pear-gauge * pear-haw * pear leaf blister mite * pear leaf blister moth * pear leaf-curling midge, pear leaf midge * pear-louse * pear midge * pearmonger * pear orchard * pear oyster scale * pear-plum * pear psylla * pear-quince * pear-shaped * pear-shell * pear-slug * pear-sucker * pear-thorn * pear thrips * pear tree * pear-wise * pear-withe * pear-wood * peary * perry * prickly pear * sand Pear * snow pear * sugar-pear * snowy pear * Stinking Bishop pear * strawberry pear * Taiwan pear * vegetable pear * vine-pear * wax pear * willowleaf pear, willow-leafed pear * wooden pear * Ya Pear

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