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prettygoodwordSince posting will be curtailed for the Stateside holiday week, and I happen to have just enough words on this theme to fill it up, a theme week of five-letter foods.
nashi (NAH-shee) - n., the asian pear.
From the Japanese word for pear, though this is cultivated all throughout eastern and southeastern Asia, and is more likely to be called a Chinese pear than a Japanese pear. So it goes.
---L.
nashi (NAH-shee) - n., the asian pear.
From the Japanese word for pear, though this is cultivated all throughout eastern and southeastern Asia, and is more likely to be called a Chinese pear than a Japanese pear. So it goes.
---L.
