pyriform

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The features of the women are masculine: the mammć become pyriform, and elongate in nursing.

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  1. adjective Shaped like a pear.

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  1. Medieval Latin pyrum, pear (alteration of Latin pirum) + -form.

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  1. Prop. piriform; from Latin pyrum, properly pirum, a pear (see pear), + forma, form.
 

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/ˈpɪrɪfɔrm/
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