Chinese white pear

English

A Chinese white pear

Noun

Chinese white pear (plural Chinese white pears)

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.
A tree producing such fruit.

Translations

fruit

Chinese:
Cantonese: 雪梨 (syut³ lei⁴^-²), 鴨梨, 鸭梨 (aap³ lei⁴^-²)

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

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