pear-shaped

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Pear-shaped Ceylon, separated from India by only fifty miles of water, is three fourths the size of Ireland, and its population 3,600,000.

From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland

Pear-shaped, solid obovate, the shape of a pear.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

A sub-variety of the Red Pear-shaped, with a clear, semi-transparent, yellow skin and yellow flesh.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing

Fruit: Pear-shaped, pulpy, red, nearly smooth, 1 in. long or over, edible.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

Pear-shaped Devignes was easy to deceive: the opera-singer lived too well to want to believe that anybody in the world could starve.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright