Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each.
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Rod-shaped
Synonyms for "rod-shaped" (6 found)
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Finnish
4 entries- sauva adj (describing a form of bacterium)
- sauvamainen adj (shaped like a rod)
- sauvamainen adj (describing a form of bacterium)
- tankomainen adj (shaped like a rod)
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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.
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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.
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S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.
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