Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tapering at each end; spindle-shaped.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shaped like a spindle; shaped like a cylinder that tapers at each end
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tapering at each end
Etymologies
- From Latin fusus ("spindle") + -iform. (Wiktionary)
- Latin fūsus, spindle + -form. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And that process of identification takes place in a place which we call the fusiform gyrus which as we have seen is damaged in patients with face blindness or prosopognosia ...”
“Researchers still can't pinpoint the cause, but say it's most likely linked to an area of the brain called the fusiform gyrus, which shows activity in response to seeing faces.”
“And if you look, tucked away inside the inner surface of the temporal lobes -- you can't see it there -- is a little structure called the fusiform gyrus.”
“There are in fact 30 areas in the back of your brain concerned with just vision, and after processing all that, the message goes to a small structure called the fusiform gyrus, where you perceive faces.”
“Researchers still can't pinpoint the cause but say it's most likely linked to an area of the brain called the fusiform gyrus, which shows activity in response to seeing faces.”
“Until recently, it was thought that the condition only arose after brain injury - usually because of damage to an area of the brain known as the fusiform gyrus.”
“A bit ahead of this is a region in the temporal lobe called the fusiform face area, which seems to be more heavily involved in processing the overall configuration of facial features - the nose in relation to the eyes and mouth - and otherwise representing the identity of a face as a whole.”
“According to Ramachandran, when we see someone we know, a part of our brain called the fusiform gyrus identifies the face: "That looks like mom!”
“People who develop the condition later in life have usually suffered a stroke or an injury in a brain region important for facial recognition called the fusiform gyrus, says”
“In addition to weeds, Prior and Runion also saw effects on disease and insect pests, such as fusiform rust and the red headed pine sawfly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fusiform’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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SCIE - neurology
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root tips and other ends
stolon, circinate, calyptrogen, meristem, verticil, fusiform, telomere, skirret, relbun, turpeth, galangal, vetiver and 54 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Shape Words
shapely adjectives and descriptors
clithridiate, botryose, fimbriate, filiciform, plumaceous, rhipidate, auriculate, belemnoid, cirriform, scyphate, falcate, cortinate and 127 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Form Words
Words that mean the form of something. Like pyriform means pear-shaped
pyriform, napiform, plexiform, spherical, cubical, aciform, aeriform, triangular, fusiform, ensiform, rectangular, ramiform and 6 more...
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Spindle-shaped
Words meaning spindle-shaped
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