Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
rod , usually in shape
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- adjective resembling a rod
Etymologies
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Examples
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The one on the left, tagged with an N, was exactly the same, red with those darker rodlike stains.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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I took up a different picture, a picture of a gigantic spirit, with the same rodlike head-dress, leaning over a sleeping man.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Therefore, the mere fact that a parent spanks does not mean his discipline has been “rodlike.”
Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007
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V2 cells respond preferentially to small spots of color and also to oscillating rodlike objects, i.e. stimuli that resemble snakes.
Snakes in Primate Vision Field Notes 2006
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They are rodlike bodies which can be seen only under the microscope.
Glossary 2004
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V2 cells respond preferentially to small spots of color and also to oscillating rodlike objects, i.e. stimuli that resemble snakes.
Archive 2006-07-01 Field Notes 2006
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The myosin has a shape reminiscent of the letter “r,” but with the rodlike shaft much elongated.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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The myosin has a shape reminiscent of the letter “r,” but with the rodlike shaft much elongated.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Looking at her, Barbara straightened her own slouch to a rodlike position that she felt fairly confident of being able to hold for at least thirty seconds.
In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996
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The technician skidded a rodlike device, called a transducer, across my abdomen and pictures of my uterus were flashed onto the monitor.
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
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