pear-shaped

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  1. Shaped like a pear; pointed or peaked above and ovate beneath: specifically, in bot, obovoid or obconical with more tapering base; pyriform.
  2. Pear-shaped helmet a form of morion without a comb, and having the crown or body nearly conical but with a curved outline. See comb-cap, morion, and cabasset.

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  • Injuries, certainly, have played their part but the Kiwis have gone pear-shaped faster than Marlon Brando. —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
  • The gallbladder is a pear-shaped limb underneath the liver that collects and stores bile (a fluid made by the liver to digest fat). —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • "I used a jigsaw to mock I mean cut out this entrance for our pear-shaped cats." —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • A majority of hailstones are roughly spherical, but many are conical, pear-shaped or flattened, and some assume other and more striking forms. —  Modern Mechanix
  • Designed by Nick Foley, this hand-forged hollow steel tree bears three removable pear-shaped lights that are held on with a rare earth magnet. —  Cool Hunting
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