Usually means: Tapers at both ends symmetrically.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. spindle-shaped: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. spindle-shaped: Vocabulary.com
  3. spindle-shaped: Wordnik
  4. spindle-shaped: Wiktionary
  5. spindle-shaped: Dictionary.com
  6. Spindle-shaped: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. spindle-shaped: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. spindle-shaped: Rhymezone
  9. Spindle-shaped: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. spindle-shaped: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. spindle-shaped: FreeDictionary.org
  12. spindle-shaped: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Spindle-shaped: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. spindle-shaped: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. spindle-shaped: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spindle-shaped)

▸ adjective:  tapering at each end

Similar:
fusiform, pointed, cigar-shaped, spiraliform, spindeloid, tapered, multitapered, acuminose, cylindroconical, terete, more...

Opposite:
rounded, cylindrical, bulbous, spherical

Types:
fusiform, vermiform, conical, cylindrical, ellipsoidal, ovoid, more...

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Similar:
fusiform, pointed, cigar-shaped, spiraliform, spindeloid, tapered, multitapered, acuminose, cylindroconical, terete, more...

Opposite:
rounded, cylindrical, bulbous, spherical

Types:
fusiform, vermiform, conical, cylindrical, ellipsoidal, ovoid, more...



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