Crossword-Solution: PYRUS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

The wild apple (_Pyrus rivularis_) is a fine, hearty, handsome little tree that grows well in rich, cool soil along streams and on the edges of beaver meadows from California through Oregon and Washington to southeastern Alaska.

The same author grafted a _bon-chrétien_ on a quince, and it produced, besides its proper fruit, an apparently new variety, of a peculiar form with thick and rough skin.[14] _Apple (Pyrus malus)._—In Canada, a tree of the variety called Pound Sweet, produced,[15] between two of its proper fruit, an apple which was well russeted, small in size, different in shape, and with a short peduncle.

Falconer informs me that he has seen the English Ribston-pippin apple, a Himalayan oak, Prunus and Pyrus, all assume in the hotter parts of India a fastigiate or pyramidal habit; and this fact is the more interesting, as a Chinese tropical species of Pyrus naturally grows thus.

And now we will go into details.” ***** When the Gadfly reached his lodgings the sun had set, and the blossoming pyrus japonica that hung over the garden wall looked dark in the fading light.