Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Circular in cross-section and tapering from the middle to each end; fusiform; formed like a spindle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the shape of a spindle.
- adjective (Bot.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
tapering at each end
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tapering at each end
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Examples
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Her delicate, spindle-shaped body with its great radiating surfaces and ring of low-thrust ion engines would be torn to pieces by air resistance if she ever entered an atmosphere.
Tin 2010
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It was as wild a piece of architecture as the other, though more spindle-shaped than conical, more topple than top.
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It crawls along the long muscle fibers and then penetrates one of the long, spindle-shaped cells that make them up.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Three days later, microscope examination of the brain slices revealed it to be dotted with the distinctive spindle-shaped cells.
Smithsonian - Brain Cells for Socializing William Harryman 2009
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It crawls along the long muscle fibers and then penetrates one of the long, spindle-shaped cells that make them up.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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These spindle-shaped brain cells, called von Economo neurons—named for the man who first described them—are found only in human beings, great apes and a handful of other notably gregarious creatures.
Smithsonian - Brain Cells for Socializing William Harryman 2009
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It crawls along the long muscle fibers and then penetrates one of the long, spindle-shaped cells that make them up.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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And proper, spindle-shaped spindles for your favourite stickless whorl.
Acquiring a product line a stitch in time 2009
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And proper, spindle-shaped spindles for your favourite stickless whorl.
Archive 2009-06-01 a stitch in time 2009
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At the same level treasures which of extreme importance were found having in mind the period - a golden jewel, consisting of 320 beads: small spherical (2 mm) taking turns with big barley-shaped beads (7 mm), 1, 5 m all, two golden spindle-shaped objects, with a solar decoration, a golden and a silver tile, tied together with a sliver knit, a silver ring and a bronze knife with a stone hone.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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