pyriform

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Turbinate or top-shaped, and pyriform or pear-shaped, are especially applicable to pears, and seldom to apples.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

Branches clustered; leaves loose, imbricate on the branches, round-ovate, entire; perianth pyriform, slightly compressed and repand, smooth, obscurely carinate beneath and gibbous toward the apex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Body pyriform, the pointed end posterior; flagella 4 anterior.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Core large, pyriform, regular, clasping, generally open; Seeds numerous, plump, angular, loose; Flesh yellow, breaking, juicy; Flavor acid to sub-acid, rather rich; Quality good for culinary use; Market and drying; Season, November, December.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

Involucres sessile, obconic or pyriform, perforated at the apex, continuous with the thallus at base.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa