Fusiform

What do we mean by fusiform?

Tapering at each end; spindle-shaped. adjective

Tapering both ways from the middle: applied in botany to certain roots, as the radish, and in zoölogy to joints, organs, marks, etc., which are broadest in the middle and diminish regularly and rapidly to the ends.

In ichthyology, having the dorsal and ventral contours symmetrical, and approximated to each other from a middle point toward each end, as the mackerel, tunny, and stickle back. Also fusate, fusoid.

Shaped like a spindle; shaped like a cylinder that tapers at each end adjective

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end. adjective

Tapering at each end adjective

Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.

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Adjectives that are often used to describe fusiform:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective fusiform:
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Words that sound like fusiform:
fusiform, fusilier, filiform, cuniform, isoform, beautifier, sousaphone, stelliform, somatoform, cfor.