fusiform

About 0.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.

   Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).

Similar words

pointed spindle-shaped cigar-shaped streamlined fungiform disciform fusoid-ventricose spiculiform phaseoliform rotiform

Often followed by

cells or bacilli and gyrus in initials rust shape