adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bowman forced his fingers to hunt around, and presently discovered the pear-shaped bulb.
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From the low ceiling hung large, black metal frames with little pear-shaped leather bags and black metal pipes at right angles.
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I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me.
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Meg plays Alice, a cheerful hippy in the minutes before everything goes pear-shaped .
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Outwardly, Donna, the classic pear-shaped woman, laughed about her legs, but finally she quit exercising.
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The new lands he discovered convinced him that the earth was not round but pear-shaped .
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When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement.