peariform

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Pear-shaped. A hybrid expression.


The Western mounds are usually simple cones in form; but they are sometimes truncated, and occasionally terraced, with graded or winding ascents to their summits. Some are elliptical, others peariform, and others square or parallelogram, with flanking terraces.--Squier on the Aboriginal Monuments of the Mississppi Valley.