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Spindle-shaped

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Spin´dle-shaped`
a.1.Having the shape of a spindle.
2.(Bot.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; - applied chiefly to roots.
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Adj.1.spindle-shaped - tapering at each end
cigar-shaped, fusiform
pointed - having a point


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For some time past vessels had been met by "an enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
The little spindle-shaped things in the centre are diatoms and may be disregarded since they are probably vegetable rather than animal.
The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Not a view in the world, either at Chambord or at the Alhambra, is more magic, more aerial, more enchanting, than that thicket of spires, tiny bell towers, chimneys, weather-vanes, winding staircases, lanterns through which the daylight makes its way, which seem cut out at a blow, pavilions, spindle-shaped turrets, or, as they were then called, "tournelles," all differing in form, in height, and attitude.
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