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from The Century Dictionary.

  • More or less nearly fusiform or spindle-shaped.

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Examples

  • Abdomen elongate-subfusiform, longer and much more slender than the thorax; first segment gibbous above.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Head gilded in front, vertex and hind part silvery; mystax with six black bristles; third joint of the antennæ very long, subfusiform; pectus silvery; abdomen purplish blue, shorter than in the preceding species, with silvery spots along each side; wings grey, slightly grey towards the base; halteres white.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Head silvery in the male, pale-gilded in the female; mystax with several slender bristles; mouth lanceolate; third joint of the antennæ very elongate-subfusiform, black towards the tip; disk of the thorax and nearly triangular dorsal spots of the abdomen ferruginous with a slight æneous tinge; pectus testaceous, slightly silvery; wings slightly greyish; veins black, testaceous at the base, where the wings also have a testaceous tinge; halteres testaceous.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • [PLEUROTOMA LUNATUM] Shell thick, elongate, acute, subfusiform; strongly and obliquely ribbed; spire, eight whirled, angulated above and ornamented by a narrow sutural band.

    Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

  • Head brightly gilded, hind part silvery; mystax with six long black bristles; third joint of the antennæ very elongate subfusiform; thorax with slightly gilded tomentum, excepting a broad bare middle stripe; pectus with silvery tomentum; abdomen purplish-blue, green towards the base, with spots of silvery tomentum along each side; hind borders of the ventral segments white; wings grey, blackish-grey for almost half the length from the tips and along three-fourths of the length of the hind border, veins black; halteres ferruginous.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

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