- use
invented in the
early modern period. The
mechanism consists of a
pear-
shaped metal body
divided into spoon-like
segments that can be
spread apart...
-
avocados have green, brown, purplish, or
black skin, and may be
pear-
shaped, egg-
shaped, or spherical. For
commercial purposes, the
fruits are
picked while...
- "Old-fashioned" pear
drops are a
combination of half pink and half
yellow in a
pear-
shaped drop
about the size of a thumbnail,
although they are more
commonly found...
-
accepting that
ordinary pear-
shaped gags exist, they
observed that
contemporary robbers used no such
device as Palioly's
Pear and cast
doubt upon its...
- instruments.
Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the
instrument has a
pear-
shaped wooden body with a
varying number of
frets ranging from 12 to 31. Another...
- cut
stones in the
shape known as
pendeloque or briolette;
these were
pear-
shaped with
triangular facets on both sides.
About the
middle of the 16th century...
- 1987 the
pear brilliant was
auctioned in Geneva, Switzerland. The
Countess Széchényi, a 62.05
carats (12.410 g; 0.4377 oz), D color,
pear-
shaped brilliant...
-
implying the
Earth to be egg-
shaped.: 4 In 1498,
Christopher Columbus dubiously suggested that the
Earth was
pear-
shaped based on his
disparate mobile...
- up pyriform or
pear-
shaped in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Piriform,
sometimes pyriform,
means pear-
shaped (from
Latin pirum "
pear" and
forma "shape")...
-
Apioperdon pyriforme,
commonly known as the
pear-
shaped puffball or
stump puffball, is a
saprobic fungus present throughout much of the world. Emerging...
