Rod-shaped
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
- 2 Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.; 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."
Adjective
- 1 resembling a rod wordnet
- 2 formed like a bacillus wordnet
Example
More examples"Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each."
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