Definitions

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  • adjective Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.
  • adjective biology Specifically, describing a form of bacterium.

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  • adjective resembling a rod
  • adjective formed like a bacillus

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Examples

  • At the San Diego conference, he put up a hard-to-read image of hypermagnified rock with small rod-shaped grains and small filaments.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • But while he possessed a working knowledge of Bacillus anthracis, Hatfill had never worked in any capacity with the spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium.

    The Wrong Man 2010

  • But while he possessed a working knowledge of Bacillus anthracis, Hatfill had never worked in any capacity with the spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium.

    The Wrong Man 2010

  • Here we see a sheath, and on the inside can see a chain of cells, rod-shaped cells, that make up the trichome of a cyanobacterium.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • But while he possessed a working knowledge of Bacillus anthracis, Hatfill had never worked in any capacity with the spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium.

    The Wrong Man 2010

  • At the San Diego conference, he put up a hard-to-read image of hypermagnified rock with small rod-shaped grains and small filaments.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • It is quite a wild microbial zoo: Some of the microfossils are rod-shaped, some spherical, some sluglike, some almost slithery.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • E. coli organisms are bacteria, single-celled bugs basically, rod-shaped and about .00008 inches long.

    E. coli outbreak bug genes look super aggressive 2011

  • Here we see a sheath, and on the inside can see a chain of cells, rod-shaped cells, that make up the trichome of a cyanobacterium.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • It is quite a wild microbial zoo: Some of the microfossils are rod-shaped, some spherical, some sluglike, some almost slithery.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

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