"fusiform" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more fusiform [comparative], most fusiform [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin fusus (“spindle”) + -iform. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|fusus||spindle}} Latin fusus (“spindle”), {{suffix|en||iform}} + -iform Head templates: {{en-adj}} fusiform (comparative more fusiform, superlative most fusiform)
  1. (chiefly botany, zoology) Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end. Categories (topical): Botany, Zoology Synonyms: spindle-shaped Derived forms: bifusiform, fusiform gyrus, subfusiform Related terms: fusee Translations (spindle-shaped): вретеновиден (vretenoviden) (Bulgarian), sukkulamainen (Finnish), fusiforme (French), ατρακτοειδής (atraktoeidís) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), fusiforme (Portuguese), веретенообра́зный (veretenoobráznyj) (Russian), fusiforme (Spanish)

Adjective [Romanian]

Etymology: Borrowed from French fusiforme. Etymology templates: {{bor+|ro|fr|fusiforme}} Borrowed from French fusiforme Head templates: {{ro-adj}} fusiform m or n (feminine singular fusiformă, masculine plural fusiformi, feminine and neuter plural fusiforme) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-adj}} Forms: fusiformă [feminine, singular], fusiformi [masculine, plural], fusiforme [feminine, neuter, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], fusiform [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, masculine, neuter, singular], fusiformă [error-unrecognized-form, feminine, indefinite, singular], fusiformi [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, masculine, singular], fusiforme [error-unrecognized-form, feminine, indefinite, neuter, plural], fusiformul [definite, error-unrecognized-form, masculine, neuter, singular], fusiforma [definite, error-unrecognized-form, feminine, singular], fusiformii [definite, error-unrecognized-form, masculine, singular], fusiformele [definite, error-unrecognized-form, feminine, neuter, plural], fusiforme [error-unrecognized-form, feminine, indefinite, singular], fusiformului [definite, error-unrecognized-form, masculine, neuter, singular], fusiformei [definite, error-unrecognized-form, feminine, singular], fusiformilor [definite, error-unrecognized-form, masculine, singular], fusiformelor [definite, error-unrecognized-form, feminine, neuter, plural]
  1. fusiform Tags: masculine, neuter
    Sense id: en-fusiform-ro-adj-4UexoSPf Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Romanian entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (b81b832 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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