pear tree

n : Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit;

widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: {pear}, {Pyrus

communis}]

dead tree

Paper.

Use of this term emphasises the waste of natural resources and

limited features available from the printed form of a document

compared with an electronic rendition.

E.g. "I read the dead tree edition of the {Guardian

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/)} on the train".

See also {tree-killer}.

(1999-11-03)