fusiform
adjEtymology From Latin fusus (“spindle”) + -iform.
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Biology, Botany, Natural sciences, Zoology Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.
- Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).
- Acorns come in spherical and fusiform varieties.
- Derived terms
- bifusiform, fusiform gyrus, subfusiform