Usually means: Shaped like a pear; pear-shaped.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word piriform:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. piriform: Merriam-Webster
  2. piriform: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Piriform, piriform: Wordnik
  4. piriform: Wiktionary
  5. piriform: Dictionary.com
  6. Piriform (company), Piriform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. piriform: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piriform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. piriform: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. piriform: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Piriform: Visual of Special Plane Curves
  2. Piriform: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Piriform)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of pyriform. [(biology) Pear-shaped.]
▸ noun:  Alternative form of pyriform. [A pyriform object.]

Similar:
pyriform, uncus, petrosal, ocellar, infundibular, cerebelli, rhinal, anterodorsal, nasalis, quadrigeminal, more...

Phrases:
Piriform cortex, piriform sinus, piriform aperture, piriform lobe, piriform fossa, more...

Adjectives:
rat, anterior, insular, subcallosal, body, right, left, medial, laryngeal

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Similar:
pyriform, uncus, petrosal, ocellar, infundibular, cerebelli, rhinal, anterodorsal, nasalis, quadrigeminal, more...

Phrases:
Piriform cortex, piriform sinus, piriform aperture, piriform lobe, piriform fossa, piriform recess, piriform area, piriform muscle, piriform nerve, cerebral piriform lobe, piriform aperture wiring, more...

Adjectives:
rat, anterior, insular, subcallosal, body, right, left, medial, laryngeal



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