pyriform

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The first has not been examined by the writer and is said to be smooth and short, pyriform, 10 centimeters in diameter.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various

Core small, pyriform, regular, closed, scarcely clasping; Seeds, some imperfect; Flesh greenish-yellow, fine grained; Flavor sub-acid, rich; Quality good to very good; Use dessert and kitchen; Season December.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

Seeds pyriform, with beak-like base.—Plants climbing by the coiling of naked-tipped tendrils.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Involucres sessile, obconic or pyriform, perforated at the apex, continuous with the thallus at base.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Sporangium obovoid or pyriform, yellow, stipitate; the wall a thin pellucid membrane, smooth and shining, beautifully iridescent, breaking away above the middle, the lower cup-shaped portion persistent.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)