fusiform

English

Spindle with yarn.

Muscle shapes, fusiform on the left

Etymology

From Latin fusus (“spindle”) +‎ -iform.

Adjective

fusiform (comparative more fusiform, superlative most fusiform)

1. (chiefly botany, zoology) Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.

   Synonym: spindle-shaped

   Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).

   Acorns come in spherical and fusiform varieties.

Derived terms

• bifusiform
• fusiform gyrus
• subfusiform

Related terms

• fusee

Translations

spindle-shaped

• Arabic: مِغْزَلِيّ (ar) (miḡzaliyy)
• Bulgarian: вретеновиден (bg) (vretenoviden)
• Catalan: fusiforme (ca)
• Czech: vřetenovitý
• Esperanto: ŝpinilforma sg
• Finnish: sukkulamainen
• French: fusiforme (fr)
• German: spindelförmig (de)
• Greek: ατρακτοειδής (el) m or f (atraktoeidís)
• Hungarian: orsós (hu)
• Italian: fusiforme
• Latin: fūsifōrmis
• Polish: wrzecionowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: fusiforme (pt)
• Russian: веретенообра́зный (ru) (veretenoobráznyj)
• Spanish: fusiforme (es)
• Turkish: iğsi (tr)

See also

• spindly

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fusiforme.

Adjective

fusiform m or n (feminine singular fusiformă, masculine plural fusiformi, feminine/neuter plural fusiforme)

1. fusiform

Declension

Declension of fusiform

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	fusiform		fusiformă	fusiformi	fusiforme
	definite	fusiformul		fusiforma	fusiformii	fusiformele
genitive- dative	indefinite	fusiform		fusiforme	fusiformi	fusiforme
	definite	fusiformului		fusiformei	fusiformilor	fusiformelor