rod-shaped

Speech parts

1. rod-shaped - Adjective

2. rod-shaped - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

formed like a bacillus

resembling a rod

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Bacillus anthracis Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows splenic tissue from a monkey with inhalational anthrax; featured are rod-shaped bacilli (yellow) and an erythrocyte (red). Source: Internet

The beater head is usually made of either felt, wood, plastic, or rubber and is attached to a rod-shaped metal shaft. Source: Internet

These pre- cladistics analyses emphasised as shared features: multiciliated (with multiple cilia per cell), glandular epidermis; rod-shaped secretory bodies or rhabdites; frontal glands or organs; protonephridia ; and acoelomate body organization. Source: Internet

Hansen's claim was injured by his failure to produce a pure microbiological culture in an artificial medium or to prove that the rod-shaped organisms were infectious. Source: Internet

For example, SC followed by a number was rod-shaped cord, with the number representing the diameter in thousandths of an inch. Source: Internet

There are three types of thermotropic liquid crystals: discotics, bowlics and rod-shaped molecules. Source: Internet

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