The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spindle-shaped
Spindle-shaped \Spin"dle-shaped`\, a.
Having the shape of a spindle.
(Bot.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
Wiktionary
spindle-shaped
a. tapering at each end
WordNet
spindle-shaped
adj. tapering at each end [syn: fusiform, cigar-shaped]
Usage examples of "spindle-shaped".
Grassi, but when he came to look for those strange doings of the circles and warts and spindle-shaped threads in the stomachs and saliva-glands of his she-anopheles, he found that Ronald Ross was exactly right!
It was a spindle-shaped synth-and-metal machine about three meters long and one through at the widest point.