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Spindle-shaped   Listen
adjective
Spindle-shaped  adj.  
1.
Having the shape of a spindle.
2.
(Bot.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; applied chiefly to roots.





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... equally with positive results. On the other hand, M. Carriere has lately stated ('Gardener's Chronicle' 1865 page 1154), that he took seed from a wild carrot, growing far from any cultivated land, and even in the first generation the roots of his seedlings differed in being spindle-shaped, longer, softer, and less fibrous than those of the wild plant. From these seedlings he ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Spindle-shaped" :   cigar-shaped, fusiform


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