Associations to the word «Peary»

Wiktionary

PEARY, adjective. Resembling pears, pear-like.
PEARY, adjective. Of, or pertaining to, pears.
PEARY CARIBOU, noun. Rangifer tarandus pearyi, a small caribou found in the high Arctic islands of Canada's Nunavut and Northwest territories.

Dictionary definition

PEARY, noun. United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats