rod-shaped
See also: rodshaped
English
Adjective
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, p. 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.
- 2008, The Observer, 20 Jan 08:
- (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, p. 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", Advances in Virus Research, vols. 1-11, pp. 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.
- 2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01:
Related terms
- almond-shaped - banana-shaped - bell-shaped - brickshaped - cone-shaped - cross-shaped - cup-shaped - domeshaped - egg-shaped - funnelshaped - heart-shaped - hourglass-shaped - leaf-shaped - mushroom-shaped - needle-shaped - pear-shaped - ring-shaped - rod-shaped - spindle-shaped - top-shaped - wedge-shaped
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