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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Fū'si-fōrm, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. fusus, spindle, and forma, shape; Fr. fusiforme.] (Bot.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end. Lindley.

A tapered, spindle-shaped root with small rootlets and stems at the top and bottom.
Fusiform Root.