Usually means: Shaped like a pear; pear-shaped.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyriform: Merriam-Webster
  2. pyriform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pyriform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pyriform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pyriform: Wordnik
  6. pyriform: Wiktionary
  7. pyriform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pyriform: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Pyriform, pyriform, pyriform: Dictionary.com
  10. Pyriform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pyriform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pyriform: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  13. Pyriform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pyriform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. pyriform: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pyriform: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. pyriform: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyriform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyriform: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pyriform: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Pyriform: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pyriform)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Pear-shaped.
▸ noun:  A pyriform object.

Similar:
piriform, phialiform, phylliform, podiform, pomiform, petaliform, palpiform, macropygous, floriform, rotiform, more...

Phrases:
pyriform lobe, pyriform area, pyriform apparatus, pyriform recess, laryngeal pyriform recesses, more...

Adjectives:
large, obtuse, small, ovate, body, oblong, long, somewhat, oval, more, elongate

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Similar:
piriform, phialiform, phylliform, podiform, pomiform, petaliform, palpiform, macropygous, floriform, rotiform, more...

Phrases:
pyriform lobe, pyriform area, pyriform apparatus, pyriform recess, laryngeal pyriform recesses, Pyriform sinus, more...

Adjectives:
large, obtuse, small, ovate, body, oblong, long, somewhat, oval, more, elongate



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