2008, The Observer, 20 Jan 08:Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each.
1999, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, p. 309: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.
(biology) Specifically, describing a form of bacterium.
2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01: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.
1981, PCL John, The Cell Cycle, p. 86:S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.
1965, "Small Bacteriophages", Advances in Virus Research, vols. 1-11, pp. 343-4:The rod-shapedE. coli phages share a common host range with the RNA-containing E. coli phages, a coincidence which probably unites unrelated viruses.
