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cat face
 n.— «Unlike the smooth, round baseball-size tomatoes usually shipped from Florida from mid-October through mid-April, the lush, vine-ripened UglyRipes have what the industry calls a “cat face,” full of uneven crevices and ridges.» —“Forget About Taste, Florida Says, These Tomatoes Are Just Too Ugly to Ship” by Florence Fabricant New York Times Dec. 21, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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