fusiform

[ fyoo-zuh-fawrm ]

/ ˈfyu zəˌfɔrm /

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adjective

spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots.

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Origin of fusiform

1740–50; <Latin fūs(us) spindle + -i- + -form

OTHER WORDS FROM fusiform

sub·fu·si·form, adjective

Words nearby fusiform

Fushih, Fushun, fusibility, fusible, fusible metal, fusiform, fusil, fusile, fusilier, fusillade, fusilli

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How to use fusiform in a sentence

The face game players use areas of the brain specializing in recognizing faces—the fusiform and occipital face areas.
Why Your Sleeping Brain Replays New Rewarding Experiences - Facts So Romantic|Jim Davies|August 6, 2021|Nautilus
Then your noggin’s face- and color-recognition unit, the fusiform gyrus, puts it into context.
Why some people hear colors and taste words|Marion Renault|December 27, 2020|Popular-Science
It is probably caused by two micro-organisms living in symbiosis—one a fusiform bacillus, the other a long spirillum (Fig. 124).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In some the figure approaches to fusiform, as in most of the moths of the Fabrician genus Lithosia.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4)|William Kirby

Fusiform: Outline of a parsnip, narrow at either end, broadest below the surface (Fig. 151, k).
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique|John William Henry Eyre
The larva has a soft fusiform body, surmounted by a somewhat globose head.
The Insect World|Louis Figuier
The elaters are never fusiform, the apices always abrupt in their acumination, and the sculpture irregular and uneven.
The North American Slime-Moulds|Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

British Dictionary definitions for fusiform

fusiform

/ (ˈfjuːzɪˌfɔːm) /

adjective

elongated and tapering at both ends; spindle-shaped

Word Origin for fusiform

C18: from Latin fūsus spindle

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fusiform

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