- use
invented in the
early modern period. The
mechanism consists of a
pear-
shaped metal body
divided into spoon-like
segments that can be
spread apart...
-
avocados have green, brown, purplish, or
black skin, and may be
pear-
shaped, egg-
shaped, or spherical. For
commercial purposes the
fruits are
picked while...
- up pyriform or
pear-
shaped in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Piriform,
sometimes pyriform,
means pear-
shaped (from
Latin pirum "
pear" and
forma "shape")...
-
means pear-
shaped. The
classical Latin word for a
pear tree is pirus;
pyrus is an
alternate form of this word
sometimes used in
medieval Latin. The
pear is...
- "Old-fashioned" pear
drops are a
combination of half pink and half
yellow in a
pear-
shaped drop
about the size of a thumbnail,
although they are more
commonly found...
-
accepting that
ordinary pear-
shaped gags exist, they
observed that
contemporary robbers used no such
device as Palioly's
Pear and cast
doubt upon its...
- cut
stones in the
shape known as
pendeloque or briolette;
these were
pear-
shaped with
triangular facets on both sides.
About the
middle of the 16th century...
-
Pyrus × bretschneideri,
called Ya
pear or
Chinese white pear,
usually slightly elongated (
shaped more like a
European pear), with
yellow skin This page is...
- 15° W
longitude (and also 180-degree away). The
theory of a
slightly pear-
shaped Earth arose and
gained publicity after the
first artificial satellites...
- Times.
Retrieved 29
March 2021. The 101.10-carat Star of the
Season pear-
shaped diamond DIF sold at Sotheby’s
Geneva in 1995 for US$ 16.4
million or...
