rod-shaped

adj — 2 senses

rod-shaped

adj

1

Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.

Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each.2008, The Observer, 20 Jan 08:
In western Nevada at the southern end of Lake Winnemucca a rod-shaped atlatl with weight and engaging hook still attached was discovered around 1961.1999, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, page 309:

2

Biology, Natural sciences Describing a form of bacterium shaped like a rod; bacilliform.

Anthrax goes through two very different stages in its life cycle. One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open.2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01:
S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.1981, PCL John, The Cell Cycle, page 86:

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The rod-shaped E. coli phages share a common host range with the RNA-containing E. coli phages, a coincidence which probably unites unrelated viruses.1965, “Small Bacteriophages”, in Advances in Virus Research, volumes 1-11, pages 343–4:

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