a variety of American pear

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• Bartlett pear — [ bα:tlɪt] noun a dessert pear of a juicy early ripening variety. Origin named after the American merchant Enoch Bartlett …   English new terms dictionary

• Barlett pear, Seckel —    an Asian variety, but is hard to bite into. It appeared on the American scene shortly after the American Revolution, and so had the jump on the Bartlett, but it couldn t keep up with Bartlett s edibility …   Dictionary of eponyms

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