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Glossary Term: Fusiform

Spindle-shaped: round in cross-section and elliptic in outline with more or less pointed ends

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Falcate
Farinose
Fascicle
Fasciculate
Female flower
Fibrous
Filament
Filiform
Fimbriate
Flabellate
Flaccid
Flexuous
Floccose
Floral diagram
Flower
Foliaceous
Fovea
Fringed
Fruit
Funicle
Furfuraceous
Furrowed
Fusiform

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