Fusiform [adjective]
Definition of Fusiform:
narrowing
Sentence/Example of Fusiform:
Then your noggin’s face- and color-recognition unit, the fusiform gyrus, puts it into context.
It is probably caused by two micro-organisms living in symbiosis—one a fusiform bacillus, the other a long spirillum (Fig. 124).
In some the figure approaches to fusiform, as in most of the moths of the Fabrician genus Lithosia.
Fusiform: Outline of a parsnip, narrow at either end, broadest below the surface (Fig. 151, k).
The larva has a soft fusiform body, surmounted by a somewhat globose head.
The elaters are never fusiform, the apices always abrupt in their acumination, and the sculpture irregular and uneven.
Spores of Bilimbia trachona to illustrate the several-celled, hyaline, fusiform or dactyloid type.
Coloured sporidia are often large and beautiful: they are mostly of an elongated, elliptical form, or fusiform.
At other times the spores are fusiform, with regularly attenuated extremities, as in Ag.
Gen. Myxidium; spores elongated and fusiform, with a polar capsule at each extremity.