Definition of "rod-shaped"

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

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

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.

1965, “Small Bacteriophages”, in Advances in Virus Research, volumes 1-11, pages 343–4