ppl. a. [SPINDLE sb. 16.] Having the form of a spindle; fusiform.

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  Chiefly Bot., Zool. and Anat.; common in 19th c.

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1776.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., Explan. Terms 377. Fusiforms, spindle-shaped, simple, and gradually lessening downwards.

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1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), IV. 220. Stem … gradually increasing in thickness to the ground, and then tapering to a spindle-shaped root.

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1834.  Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., 401. Not unfrequently they are long and narrow, like a spindle-shaped ray.

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1863.  Tyndall, Heat, viii. App. 65 (1870), 263. The flame longer, narrower, and nearly spindle-shaped.

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1875.  Cooke, Fungi, 84. It is … easily recognized by the spindle-shaped stem.

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