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Pear-shaped   /pɛr-ʃeɪpt/   Listen
Pear-shaped

adjective
1.
Having a round shape tapered at one end.
2.
(of sounds) full and rich.  Synonyms: orotund, rotund, round.  "The rotund and reverberating phrase" , "Pear-shaped vowels"





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"Pear-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... (syn Sorbus domestica).—True Service. Britain. This resembles the Mountain Ash somewhat, but the flowers are panicled, and the berries fewer, larger, and pear-shaped. The flowers are conspicuous enough to render the tree of ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster
... dirty-white or grayish looking, minute, pear-shaped bodies, visible to the naked eye, and fastened upon the shaft of the hairs with the small end toward ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon


Words linked to "Pear-shaped" :   circular, full, rotund, orotund, round


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