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fusiform

adjective as in tapering

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The face game players use areas of the brain specializing in recognizing faces—the fusiform and occipital face areas.

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.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fusiform, such as: acuminate, taper, wedged, acuminous, conical, and lanceolar.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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