"pyriform" meaning in English

See pyriform in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɪ.ɹɪ.fɔːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɪɹ.əˌfɔɹm/ [General-American] Forms: more pyriform [comparative], most pyriform [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪɹɪfɔː(ɹ)m Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin pyrifōrmis, from pyrum (“a pear”) + -fōrmis (“-form, -shaped”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of pyriformis. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|NL.|pyrifōrmis}} New Latin pyrifōrmis, {{af|la|pyrum|-fōrmis|nocat=1|pos2=adjectival suffix|t1=a pear|t2=-form, -shaped}} pyrum (“a pear”) + -fōrmis (“-form, -shaped”, adjectival suffix), {{dbt|en|pyriformis}} Doublet of pyriformis Head templates: {{en-adj}} pyriform (comparative more pyriform, superlative most pyriform)
  1. (biology) Pear-shaped. Categories (topical): Biology Synonyms: peg-top shaped Derived forms: obpyriform, prepyriform, pyriform aperture, pyriform cortex, pyriform fossa, pyriform recess, pyriform sinus, subpyriform Translations (pear-shaped): крушообразен (krušoobrazen) (Bulgarian), piriforme [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 梨狀 (Chinese Mandarin), 梨状 (lízhuàng) (Chinese Mandarin), päärynänmuotoinen (Finnish), piriforme (French), birnenförmig (German), piriforme (Spanish), päronformad (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pyriform-en-adj-THxjFeob Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -form, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -form: 94 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 98 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 96 4 Topics: biology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: piriform

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɪ.ɹɪ.fɔːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɪɹ.əˌfɔɹm/ [General-American] Forms: pyriforms [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪɹɪfɔː(ɹ)m Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin pyrifōrmis, from pyrum (“a pear”) + -fōrmis (“-form, -shaped”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of pyriformis. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|NL.|pyrifōrmis}} New Latin pyrifōrmis, {{af|la|pyrum|-fōrmis|nocat=1|pos2=adjectival suffix|t1=a pear|t2=-form, -shaped}} pyrum (“a pear”) + -fōrmis (“-form, -shaped”, adjectival suffix), {{dbt|en|pyriformis}} Doublet of pyriformis Head templates: {{en-noun}} pyriform (plural pyriforms)
  1. A pyriform object.
    Sense id: en-pyriform-en-noun-7VVUjapL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: piriform

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.