spindle-shaped

English

a spindle with yarn

Adjective

spindle-shaped (not generally comparable, comparative more spindle-shaped, superlative most spindle-shaped)

1. Tapering at each end.

   Synonym: fusiform

   a spindle-shaped fibroblast

Related terms

• spindly

References

• spindle-shaped on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “spindle-shaped”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “spindle-shaped”, in Wordnik.