rod-shaped

See also: rodshaped

English edit

rod-shaped (comparative more rod-shaped, superlative most rod-shaped)

Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.
- 2008, The Observer, 20 Jan 08:
  Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each.
- 1999, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, page 309:
  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.
(biology) Specifically, describing a form of bacterium.
- 2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01:
  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.
- 1981, PCL John, The Cell Cycle, page 86:
  S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.
- 1965, “Small Bacteriophages”, in Advances in Virus Research, volumes 1-11, pages 343–4:
  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.

shaped like a rod

describing a form of bacterium