rod-shaped

Adjective

rod-shaped (comparative more rod-shaped, superlative most rod-shaped)

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.2008, The Observer, 20 Jan 08
   • In western Nevada at the southern end of Lake Winnemucca a rod-shaped atlatl with weight and engaging hook still attached was discovered around 1961.1999, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, page 309

   Synonyms:

   veretilliform

   1. 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.2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01
      • S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.1981, PCL John, The Cell Cycle, page 86