What is "pear-shaped"

Usage examples of "pear-shaped".

There were young cocoa-nuts, gold-colored bananas of the kind which the Sultan eats, papayas, and clusters of a species of jambu, a pear-shaped fruit, beautiful to look at, each fruit looking as if made of some transparent, polished white wax with a pink flush on one side.

Afterward, he gallantly presented me with a special Lalique crystal pear-shaped flacon of La Poire, capped with a pav6 diamond stem and leaves.

He had a thick bundle of professorial hair and he wore European suits, slitless in the back, forgoing the burdened sacks of dark pinstripe that cloaked most of the pear-shaped men of the firm.

The distinction between this class and that of the Membrane fungi, which ripens its spores on the outside, may be more readily understood by one familiar with the structure of the fig, whose flowers are situated on the interior of its pear-shaped, hollow axis, which is the fruit.

They had skin that was pale yellow-green and pear-shaped heads with large, hyperthyroid eyes.

With two spatulate hands the handling-machine was digging out and flinging masses of clay into the pear-shaped receptacle above, while with another arm it periodically opened a door and removed rusty and blackened clinkers from the middle part of the machine.

He was a big man and tried to give an impression of dignity and power, but the Pecksniffian hair, pear-shaped figure and feminine hips were against him.

The stranger had dark red, wirelike hair, a stern slash of a mouth, and ears that were not quite round as his own, but pear-shaped.

According to their startling prophesies - and from the results of computerizing some of the social changes already influencing humans - it seems we could all be something like inverted pear-shaped dwarfs with large heads, small bodies, and much shorter arms and legs.

A white, linen shirt with billowing sleeves, wine red doublet that had slashes for the white shirt to show through, matching short cape, black Venetian breeches that were pear-shaped, wide, almost bombasted at the hips and narrow at the knee, black silk stockings, and round-toed shoes with bow ties.

He dug into a pocket and produced a black pear-shaped metal container.

A dull black pear-shaped blob flung carelessly and rather incongruously against an unwinking mist of stars.

Sitting on an improvised stool, in my right hand the chisel and in my left, despite the objections of Korneff, who wished to make me right-handed, a pear-shaped wooden mallet or an iron bush hammer.

He was a short, fat, pear-shaped man with the complexion and hair of a pig of the Chester White breed.

Be that as it may, a lot of people are convinced that strange aliens, usually with big black eyes and pear-shaped heads like the ones in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, landed a UFO near them, loaded them on board, and took them for a flight round the solar system while carrying out weird experiments, often of a sexual nature, on them.