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Definitions: Pear-shaped |
Pear-shapedAdjective1. Having a round shape tapered at one end. 2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pear-shaped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: Pear-shapedSynonyms: orotund (adj), rotund (adj), round (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: artichoke pear shaped weevil (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), clover pearshaped weevil, clover seed weevil, pea pear-shaped weevil, pear shaped weevil, pear-shaped bladder (medicine), pear-shaped centrifuge tube (mechanical engineering, mining), pear-shaped drop (european union, industry), pearshaped excavator (industry, meteorology & standards), pear-shaped excavator, pear-shaped flask (chemistry), pear-shaped guava (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), pearshaped separating funnel (chemistry), pear-shaped suction bulb (chemistry, meteorology & standards), pear-shaped syringe (medicine), pear-shaped thorax, pear-shaped thymus, white guava (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circularity | Adjective: round, rounded, circular, annular, orbicular; oval, ovate; elliptic, elliptical; egg-shaped; pear-shaped; cycloidal; Noun: spherical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pear-shaped |
| English words defined with "pear-shaped": ackee, akee, alligator pear, Aludel, avocado, avocado pear ♦ bergamot, bergamot orange, Betty, blackthorn ♦ Can buoy, Chokeberry, Citrus bergamia, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, Cyclops, Cydonia oblonga ♦ fig, fig tree, Florence flask ♦ genus Mucor ♦ lute ♦ native pear ♦ Pear gauge, pear haw, pear hawthorn, peg top, piriform area, piriform lobe, pomelo, Prickly pear, Pyriform, pyriform area, pyriform lobe, Pyrula ♦ quince, quince bush ♦ Sechium, shaddock ♦ water flea, Woody pear ♦ Xylomelum pyriforme. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pear-shaped": basic Bessemer converter, basic bessemer convertor ♦ chayote, chocho, christophine ♦ Giardia lamblia, Great Falls converter ♦ Thomas converter. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ that stores bile until it is needed for digestion. (references) | |
Of course some men are pear-shaped and some women become apple-shaped, especially after menopause. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pear-shaped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pear-shaped" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pear-shaped": half-pear-shaped, inverted-pear-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pear-shaped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | si dardhë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крушовиден (top-shaped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 梨状. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hruškovitý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | paereformet kolbe (pear-shaped flask), pæreformet thorax (pear-shaped thorax), pæreformet gummisprøjte (pear-shaped syringe), pæreformet centrifugerør (pear-shaped centrifuge tube), pæreformet brystkasse (pear-shaped thorax), pæreformet blære (pear-shaped bladder), udvidet nedre thoraxapertur (pear-shaped thorax), sneglebaelgsnudebille (pea pear-shaped weevil), mandelformet glasvare (pear-shaped drop), klokkeformet thymus (pear-shaped thymus), klokkeformet thorax (pear-shaped thorax), øresprøjte (pear-shaped syringe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | peervormige blaas (pear-shaped bladder), peerkolf (pear-shaped flask), peervormige centrifugeerbuis (pear-shaped centrifuge tube), peervormige injectiespuit (pear-shaped syringe), peervormige thorax (pear-shaped thorax), pipetteerballon (pear-shaped suction bulb), piriforme blaas (pear-shaped bladder), pectus excavatum (pear-shaped thorax), thorax excavatum (pear-shaped thorax), trechterborst (pear-shaped thorax), thorax piriformis (pear-shaped thorax), chonechondrosternon (pear-shaped thorax), guyaba (pear-shaped guava, white guava), guave (guava, pear-shaped guava, white guava), guava (pear-shaped guava, white guava), grote wikkesnuitkever (pea pear-shaped weevil), goejave (pear-shaped guava, white guava), excavatio sterni (pear-shaped thorax), djamboe bidji (pear-shaped guava, white guava). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | päärynänmuotoinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | poirier des Indes (pear-shaped guava), poire aspiratrice (pear-shaped suction bulb), piriforme (pearshaped excavator, pear-shaped excavator), vessie piriforme (pear-shaped bladder), tube à centrifuger piriforme (pear-shaped centrifuge tube), thymus en cloche (pear-shaped thymus), thorax piriforme (pear-shaped thorax), thorax en entonnoir (pear-shaped thorax), seringue piriforme (pear-shaped syringe), goyavier poire (pear-shaped guava), goyavier blanc (pear-shaped guava), excavateur piriforme (pearshaped excavator, pear-shaped excavator), ballon piriforme (pear-shaped flask), apion du pois (pea pear-shaped weevil), amande (pear-shaped drop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Peleusball (pear-shaped suction bulb), Glas in Trofenform (pear-shaped drop), birnenförmiges Schleuderrohr (pear-shaped centrifuge tube), birnenförmiges Zentrifugenrohr (pear-shaped centrifuge tube), Birnenkolben (pear-shaped flask), Birnenspritze (pear-shaped syringe), Birnenthorax (pear-shaped thorax), birnförmige Guajave (pear-shaped guava, white guava), Birnenblase (pear-shaped bladder), Erbsenspitzmaeuschen (pea pear-shaped weevil), Thorax piriformis (pear-shaped thorax), glockenförmige Thymushyperplasie (pear-shaped thymus), glockenförmiger Thorax (pear-shaped thorax), Glockenthorax (pear-shaped thorax), Glockenthymus (pear-shaped thymus), Hutkrempenthorax (pear-shaped thorax), Lebensbaumblase (pear-shaped bladder), Erbsenruessler (pea pear-shaped weevil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σε σχήμα αχλάδι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | körte alakú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | a forma di pera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ear-shapedpay pereira-goiabeira (pear-shaped guava, white guava), tubo de centrifugar em forma de pera (pear-shaped centrifuge tube), timo em campainha (pear-shaped thymus), tórax piriforme (pear-shaped thorax), tórax em funil (cobblers'chest, pear-shaped thorax, shoemaker's chest), seringa piriforme (pear-shaped syringe), goiabeira branca (pear-shaped guava, white guava), bexiga piriforme (pear-shaped bladder), balao piriforme (pear-shaped flask), amîndoa (pear-shaped drop). (various references) piriform, în formã de parã. (various references) грушевидный. (various references) kruškolik. (various references) en forma de pera. (various references) päronformig. (various references) armut biçimli, armut şeklinde. (various references) грушовидний. (various references) hình quả lê (pyriform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Apion apricans, Apion carduorum, Apion pisi, Apion pomonae, Apion virens, Psidium guajava var. pyriferum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: preshaped, spearhead. | |
-2 letters: appeared, appeased, appeaser, ephedras, preshape, reshaped. | |
-3 letters: adheres, appears, appease, ephedra, headers, hearsed, papered, parades, paraphs, pardahs, perhaps, phrased, rappees, reshape, respade, saphead, sharped, sheared, speared, sphered. | |
-4 letters: adhere, appear, dapper, dasher, drapes, erased, haeres, happed, harped, hasped, header, heaped, hearse, heders, herpes, padres, papers, parade, paraph, pardah, pardee, parsed, pashed. | |
-5 letters: aahed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-p-p-r-s" | |
+4 letters: pseudepigrapha. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 61 72 2D 73 68 61 70 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01100001 01110010 00101101 01110011 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e a r - s h a p e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0061 0072 002D 0073 0068 0061 0070 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071678415857467827170 |
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