päärynä — meaning in English

English meaning

• barrel noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
• pear noun A sweet fruit that is typically rounder at the bottom and narrower near the stem, grown on the pear tree (Pyrus communis).

Senses

päärynä is used for these senses in English:

• barrel Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun#Noun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
• pear A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
• pear tree A tree of the genus Pyrus, which bears the pears as fruits.

barrel — full definition

1. noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
2. noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
3. noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
4. verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.

pear — full definition

1. noun A sweet fruit that is typically rounder at the bottom and narrower near the stem, grown on the pear tree (Pyrus communis).
2. noun A desaturated yellow-green color, like an unripe pear.

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