Sweet fruits with a rounded body and a narrower neck, related to apples, with soft flesh that ripens gradually after picking.
From Old English 'pere,' derived from Latin 'pira,' with roots possibly in Sanskrit. The fruit has been cultivated for thousands of years, with pear cultivation documented in ancient China, Egypt, and Greece.
Pears have a weird property: they actually ripen better off the tree than on it, so ancient farmers discovered they could pick them early and let them sweeten at home—making pears one of the first fruits humans learned to 'store and improve.'
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