Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Circular in cross-section and tapering from the middle to each end; fusiform; formed like a spindle.
Wiktionary
- adj. tapering at each end
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the shape of a spindle.
- adj. Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tapering at each end
Examples
“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.”
“It was as wild a piece of architecture as the other, though more spindle-shaped than conical, more topple than top.”
Fictionaut: Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
“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.”
“Three days later, microscope examination of the brain slices revealed it to be dotted with the distinctive spindle-shaped cells.”
“And proper, spindle-shaped spindles for your favourite stickless whorl.”
“It crawls along the long muscle fibers and then penetrates one of the long, spindle-shaped cells that make them up.”
“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.”
“He still wore his hair in long, wavy curls, and his mother would not have him give up embroidered collars, and little jackets fastened with frogs and spindle-shaped buttons; evidently she took a thoroughly feminine pleasure in the costume, a source of as much interest to the mother as to the child.”
“The former, in the Dog, becomes long and spindle-shaped, while in”
“She had drilled the bridge staff in the meanings of the various shapes, and so Chaison had no difficulty in recognizing the other ships of the expeditionary force as spindle-shaped lozenges of lighter green.”
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