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The pear that got bored of being a pear and apologized by becoming crisp.
means A nashi is an Asian pear — round and apple-shaped, with crisp, juicy, sweet-mild flesh unlike the soft grainy texture of European pears.
from From Japanese 梨 (nashi), simply meaning 'pear.' The fruit has been cultivated across East Asia for centuries; English picked up the Japanese word in the 20th century to distinguish this crisp, apple-shaped variety from the familiar soft European pear when it began appearing in Western markets.
- also called
- apple pear, though it's neither
- texture
- crunchy like an apple, juicy like a pear
- origin
- native to east asia, not hybridized
- shape
- round, not pear-shaped at all