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A pear is the sweet, fine-grained pome of the pear tree (Pyrus communis), the common European pear of the rose family. Picked firm and ripened off the tree, a good dessert pear turns buttery and melting, dripping with a honeyed, floral juice — a texture no apple ever reaches.
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