Dictionary

rod-shaped en · ADJ

Meanings

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. Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical. ▸ Describing a form of bacterium shaped like a rod; bacilliform.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Synonyms

veretilliform · veretilliform

Translations (4)

fi sauvamainen (describing a form of bacterium) · fi sauva- (describing a form of bacterium) · fi tankomainen (shaped like a rod) · fi sauvamainen (shaped like a rod)