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Beurré d'Anjou, from The Pears of New York (1921) by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick. The D'Anjou pear, sometimes referred to as the Beurré d'Anjou or simply Anjou, is a short-necked cultivar of European pear. The variety was originally named 'Nec Plus Meuris' in Europe and the name 'Anjou' or 'd'Anjou' was erroneously applied to the variety when ...
Some words of Angevin origin were borrowed to English via Anglo-Norman at the Angevins domination of England. [3] Today it is almost an extinct dialect or language but it is preserved in the Rimiaux, poems written in Angevin, and also in some daily expressions. [4] [5] [6]
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The Doyenné du Comice pear originated in France, where it was first grown at the Comice Horticole in Angers in the 1840s. [1] The varietal was a chance discovery, and a commemorative plaque in the Loire states: "In this garden was raised in 1849-50 the celebrated pear Doyenné du Comice by the gardener Dhomme and by Millet de la Turtaudiere, President of the Comice Horticole."
Pyrus communis, the common pear, is a species of pear native to central and eastern Europe, and western Asia. [ 3 ] It is one of the most important fruits of temperate regions, being the species from which most orchard pear cultivars grown in Europe , North America , and Australia have been developed.
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Possibly because of this idiom, the names "choke pear" and "pear of anguish" have been used for a gagging device allegedly used in Europe, sometime before the 17th century. [ 6 ] Dalechamps has identified this with the species of pear that Pliny the Elder listed as "ampullaceum" in his Naturalis Historia . [ 7 ]