Rod-shaped

Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each.

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.

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.

S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.

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.