Trained pear lies against the wall? (8)
I believe the answer is:
espalier
'the wall?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'trained pear lies against' is the wordplay.
'trained' indicates an anagram (to train can mean to grow something into a shape).
'against' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'pear' put after 'lies' is 'liespear'.
'liespear' with letters rearranged gives 'ESPALIER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for espalier that I've seen before include "flattened tree" , "Trellis for training fruit trees" , "Trained fruit-tree" , "Wood used for lattice work" , "Tree trained against a wall; pear lies (anag.)" .)