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pear plum en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of several varieties of plum trees that produce pearshaped or oblong fruit, primarily cultivated for use as rootstock.
   • Plums are propagated chiefly by budding on stocks of the Mussel, Brussels, St Julien, and Pear plums. 1880, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature · Volume 12, page 275:
2. The fruit borne by these trees.

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