fusiform
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Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
She had a broad bulge that’s called a fusiform aneurysm, and a coil wouldn’t fix the rupture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
Results showed higher activity in brain regions dedicated to faces, bodies and scenes, compared with the other categories surveyed in the fusiform face area, the extrastriate body area and the parahippocampal place area, respectively.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2021
When a parallel muscle has a central, large belly that is spindle-shaped, meaning it tapers as it extends to its origin and insertion, it sometimes is called fusiform.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
C. Gillet, 7 shades: White; pink; ochraceous; yellow; ferruginous; black or purplish black; round, ovate, elongated, or fusiform, smooth, tuberculate or irregular, simple or composite, transparent or nebulous, etc.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
