rod-shaped
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See also: rodshaped
English
[edit]Adjective
[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.
Related terms
[edit]- 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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[edit]References
[edit]- “rod-shaped”, in Wordnik.