Pyriform

Bulb pyriform, cylindrical at the crown, which, like that of the Red ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The fruit is covered with soft spines, and is of an irregular oval, or even pyriform, shape. ❋ Albert H. Benson (N/A)

This temperament is distinguished by a relatively large head and small body, pyriform face, high, wide forehead, and usually sharp features. ❋ William Windsor (N/A)

Congenital hydrocele is of a cylindrical shape; and this is mentioned as distinguishing it from isolated hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis, which is pyriform; but this mark will fail when the cord is at the same time distended, as it may be, in the latter form of the complaint. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

The tree is valued for its fruit, which is oblong to pyriform in shape, 2-5 in. in diameter, and has a grey or yellow rind and a sweet, thick orange-coloured pulp. ❋ Various (N/A)

Pertaining to the external organs of generation. pyriform ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

In some it is rounded, in others pyriform, in others peaked towards its summit. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

Bulb pyriform, measuring four inches and a half in depth, and two inches in diameter at the broadest part; neck small; skin copper-red. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

It is of elongated, pyriform outline, with the pointed end extending cephalad. ❋ C. M. [Illustrator] Reese (N/A)

This is an Eng.ish hybrid, said to have been originated by a Mr. James, an extensive market-gardener in Surrey, Eng. The bulb is pyriform, or pear-shaped; and measures four inches and upwards in depth, and two inches or more at its broadest diameter. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

A large English variety, somewhat irregular in form, but usually more or less compressed, and sometimes pyriform; the upper portion of the root being produced four or five inches above ground. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The singular "pyriform appendage" of the heart lies in the left process of the ligament, its anterior edge nearly following the arcuated contour of that process. ❋ Various (N/A)

A small, red, pyriform or pear-shaped sort, measuring from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in length, and nearly an inch in its broadest diameter. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

The nerve cells in the ganglia of the spinal nerves (Fig. 638) are pyriform in shape, and have each a single process. ❋ Unknown (1918)

They do not present any cross-striation, but contain a pyriform nucleus, which almost completely fills the cell. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The axis-cylinder passes through the capsule, and after making several spiral turns around the body of the corpuscle ends in small globular or pyriform enlargements. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Below the nasal bones and between the maxillæ is the anterior aperture of the nose, pyriform in shape, with the narrow end directed upward. ❋ Unknown (1918)

On it is a shallow pyriform, articular surface, the glenoid cavity, which is directed lateralward and forward and articulates with the head of the humerus; it is broader below than above and its vertical diameter is the longest. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Its cells are of medium size, and of an oval or pyriform shape; their axons pass into the peripheral part of the lateral funiculus of the same side, and there ascend, probably in dorsal spinocerebellar (direct cerebellar) fasciculus. ❋ Unknown (1918)

From the posterior part the anterior perforated substance and the pyriform lobe are developed; at the beginning of the fourth month the latter forms a curved elevation continuous behind with the medial surface of the temporal lobe, and consisting, from before backward, of the gyrus olfactorius lateralis, gyrus ambiens, and gyrus semilunaris, parts which in the adult brain are represented by the lateral root of the olfactory tract and the uncus. ❋ Unknown (1918)

My life has gone utterly pyriform. I've been sacked, I've wrecked my motorcycle, and, despite having broken my pelvis in the aforementioned crash, I've managed to get pregnant by some itinerant wastrel. Curse my pyriform build, which is so amenable to child-bearing and its antecedent activity! There's something pyriform—and not just visually or [figurally]—about that prize-winning [Izumo] [Nankin] goldfish bobbing belly-up in its tank. ❋ DrSJohnson (2020)