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  • noun The wood of the pear tree.

Etymologies

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pear +‎ wood

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Examples

  • The X2000, as the silver-blue Swedish train is called, has amenities alien to Amtrak regulars: plush seats with pearwood working tables, wide aisles, headsets for listening to music, electronic data displays, a telephone/fax compartment and a "bistro car" for eating.

    Full Tilt To The Future 2008

  • At times like this, one could wish for some sapient pearwood.

    Aftermath jhetley 2007

  • If I were a tree, I would be a (n): weeping willow - that, or sapient pearwood

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2002

  • A thin, curved shell of shiny rust-brown pearwood wraps the main dining space, which is smaller than I remembered.

    Midtown's Brasserie Reopens But Where Are the Revelers? 2000

  • A thin, curved shell of shiny rust-brown pearwood wraps the main dining space, which is smaller than I remembered.

    Midtown's Brasserie Reopens But Where Are the Revelers? 2000

  • In one corner an exceptional French secretary of gleaming pearwood stood like an exhibit in a museum.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • I made it from pearwood, and jointed and polished it well, and inlaid the lid with a little picture of Our Lady in nacre and silver, and blue stone for the mantle.

    Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

  • Nearby, was a gleaming oval pearwood table with eight matching chairs.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

  • Good God! She did not invite them to take off their coats, but turned immediately, led them down a long pearwood-paneled hallway.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • Four supper-couches of pale polished pearwood, a sideboard with a fine wine-cooler and red-figured cups, a little gilt Aphrodite on a marble stand.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

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