Tapering at each end.
synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped.
Roget 244:
angular,
bent,
crooked,
aduncous†,
uncinated†,
aquiline,
jagged,
serrated;
falciform†,
falcated†;
furcated†,
forked,
bifurcate,
zigzag;
furcular†;
hooked;
dovetailed;
knock kneed,
crinkled,
akimbo,
kimbo†,
geniculated†;
oblique
etc.
217.
fusiform [Micro.],
wedge-shaped,
cuneiform;
cuneate†,
multangular†,
oxygonal†;
triangular,
trigonal†,
trilateral;
quadrangular,
quadrilateral;
foursquare;
rectangular,
square,
multilateral;
polygonal
etc.
n.;
cubical,
rhomboid,
rhomboidal,
pyramidal.
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Roget 253:
sharp,
keen;
acute;
acicular,
aciform†;
aculeated†,
acuminated†;
pointed;
tapering;
conical,
pyramidal;
mucronate†,
mucronated†;
spindle shaped,
needle shaped;
spiked,
spiky,
ensiform†,
peaked,
salient;
cusped,
cuspidate,
cuspidated†;
cornute†,
cornuted†,
cornicultate†;
prickly;
spiny,
spinous†,
spicular;
thorny,
bristling,
muricated†,
pectinated†,
studded,
thistly,
briary†;
craggy
etc.
(rough)
256;
snaggy,
digitated†,
two-edged,
fusiform [Micro.];
dentiform†,
denticulated;
toothed;
odontoid†;
starlike;
stellated†,
stelliform†;
sagittate†,
sagittiform†;
arrowheaded†;
arrowy†,
barbed,
spurred.
acinaciform;
apiculate†,
apiculated†;
aristate†,
awned,
awny†,
bearded,
calamiform†,
cone-shaped,
coniform†,
crestate†,
echinate†,
gladiate†;
lanceolate†,
lanciform;
awl,
awl-shaped,
lance-shaped,
awl-shaped,
scimitar-shaped,
sword-shaped;
setarious†,
spinuliferous†,
subulate†,
tetrahedral,
xiphoid†.
cutting;
sharp edged,
knife edged;
sharp as a razor,
keen as a razor;
sharp as a needle,
sharp as a tack;
sharpened
etc.
v.;
set
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