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Rod-shaped

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 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. 1
    resembling a rod wordnet
  2. 2
    formed like a bacillus wordnet

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