apple-shaped

English

Adjective

apple-shaped (comparative more apple-shaped, superlative most apple-shaped)

1. Having a shape of an apple, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of an apple.
   1. Having android fat distribution, not gynoid fat distribution.

      Synonym: android

      Coordinate terms: gynoid, pear-shaped

      pear-shaped obesity versus apple-shaped obesity

      • 2015 November 9, Melissa Healy, “Pear-shaped vs. apple trumps body mass index as a measure of risk”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

        Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped.