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Seckel pear   /sˈɛkəl pɛr/   Listen
Seckel pear

noun
1.
Small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear.  Synonym: seckel.






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"Seckel pear" Quotes from Famous Books



... advent of genius is like what florists style the breaking of a seedling tulip into what we may call high-caste colors,—ten thousand dingy flowers, then one with the divine streak; or, if you prefer it, like the coming up in old Jacob's garden of that most gentlemanly little fruit, the seckel pear, which I have sometimes seen in shop-windows. It is a surprise,— there is nothing to account for it. All at once we find that twice two make five. Nature is fond of what are called "gift-enterprises." This little book of life which ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various



Words linked to "Seckel pear" :   pear, seckel



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