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2 pear
[peə](a type of fruit of the apple family, round at the bottom and narrowing towards the stem or top: She's very fond of pears; ( also adjective) a pear tree.) hruška; hruškov* * *[pwə]nounbotany hruška -
3 bulb
1) (the ball-shaped part of the stem of certain plants, eg onions, tulips etc, from which their roots grow.) čebulica2) ((also light bulb) a pear-shaped glass globe surrounding the element of an electric light.) žarnica3) (the pear-shaped end of a thermometer.) bučka•- bulbous* * *I [bʌlb]nounčebulica, gomolj; žarnica, izboklinaanatomy zobna, lasna korenina; anatomy bulb of the eye — zrkloII [bʌlb]intransitive verbnabrekniti -
4 avocado
plural - avocados; noun((also avocado pear) a kind of pear-shaped tropical fruit.) avokado* * *[ævoká:dou]see alligator pear -
5 drop
[drop] 1. noun1) (a small round or pear-shaped blob of liquid, usually falling: a drop of rain.) kaplja2) (a small quantity (of liquid): If you want more wine, there's a drop left.) kaplja3) (an act of falling: a drop in temperature.) padec4) (a vertical descent: From the top of the mountain there was a sheer drop of a thousand feet.) spust2. verb1) (to let fall, usually accidentally: She dropped a box of pins all over the floor.) spustiti2) (to fall: The coin dropped through the grating; The cat dropped on to its paws.) pasti3) (to give up (a friend, a habit etc): I think she's dropped the idea of going to London.) opustiti4) (to set down from a car etc: The bus dropped me at the end of the road.) odložiti (koga)5) (to say or write in an informal and casual manner: I'll drop her a note.) napisati (nekaj besed)•- droplet- droppings
- drop-out
- drop a brick / drop a clanger
- drop back
- drop by
- drop in
- drop off
- drop out* * *I [drɔp]1.intransitive verb( from) kapljati, kaniti; ( with) cediti se, teči; pasti, spustiti se; padati (cene); (from, out of) ven pasti, izpasti; prenehati; pasti v nezavest, zrušiti se; figuratively umreti;2.transitive verbpokapati; prelivati; izpustiti; opustiti, prekiniti; spustiti se; splaviti, povreči; oglasiti se pri kom; namignitito drop from sight — izginiti, zgubiti sedrop it! — nehaj že!figuratively to drop a brick — narediti nerodno napako, ustreliti kozla, bleknitito drop short — ne zadostovati; ne doseči ciljafiguratively to drop the curtain — narediti konecII [drɔp]nounkaplja, kapljica; gledališki zastor; padec; poklopna vrata; obesek, uhan; bonbon; odpadlo sadje ali zrnje; špranja (za novec v avtomatu)at the drop of a hat — nemudoma, takojto get the drop on s.o. — izrabiti neprilike kogato have a drop too much — nekoliko preveč ga imeti, biti v rožicahAmerican slang to have a drop on s.o. — imeti koga v rokahslang to have a drop in one's eye — kazati, da je kdo preveč pil -
6 fig
[fiɡ](a type of soft pear-shaped fruit, often eaten dried.) figa* * *I [fig]nounsmokva; figuratively malenkostnot to care a fig — prav nič ne marati; biti mar ko žabi orehaII [fig]nounobleka, oblačilo; stanje, razpoloženjeslang in full fig — slovesno oblečen, načičkan, nališpanin good fig — v dobri formi, kondicijiIII [fig]transitive verbto fig out ( —ali up) — nališpati, okrasiti; grajatu; slang dati konju mamilo -
7 guava
(the yellow pear-shaped fruit of a type of tropical tree.) tropski sadež
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