Definition of Pear shaped. Meaning of Pear shaped. Synonyms of Pear shaped

- 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...
- Trois Morceaux en forme de poire (Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear) is a 1903 suite for piano four hands by French composer Erik Satie. A lyrical compendium...
- "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...
- up pyriform or pear-shaped in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Piriform, sometimes pyriform, means pear-shaped (from Latin pirum "pear" and forma "shape")...
- 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...
- means pear-shaped. The classical Latin word for a pear tree is pirus; pyrus is an alternate form of this word sometimes used in medieval Latin. The pear is...
- 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...