rod-shaped
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.
adj
Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.
Example Sentences
- "Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each."
- "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."
- "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."
- "S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more rod-shaped (comparative)
most rod-shaped (superlative)