Rodlike

The one on the left, tagged with an N, was exactly the same, red with those darker rodlike stains. ❋ Jerome Preisler (2010)

I took up a different picture, a picture of a gigantic spirit, with the same rodlike head-dress, leaning over a sleeping man. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

Therefore, the mere fact that a parent spanks does not mean his discipline has been “rodlike.” ❋ John Rosemond (2007)

V2 cells respond preferentially to small spots of color and also to oscillating rodlike objects, i.e. stimuli that resemble snakes. ❋ Field Notes (2006)

They are rodlike bodies which can be seen only under the microscope. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The myosin has a shape reminiscent of the letter “r,” but with the rodlike shaft much elongated. ❋ GERALD L. SCHROEDER (2001)

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. ❋ George, Elizabeth (1996)

The technician skidded a rodlike device, called a transducer, across my abdomen and pictures of my uterus were flashed onto the monitor. ❋ LINDA ALBI (1993)

Then the lights dimmed, and she made out the rodlike projections as they touched the ground, digging into the earth, and supporting the gently settling object. ❋ Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren (1984)

The stained structures, rodlike in the grass - hopper but often angled or V-shaped in the plant material, were found to cluster on the center of the spindle. ❋ BENTLEY GLASS (1968)

Nearby were a host of little rodlike squiggles just too small to see clearly. ❋ Lester Del Rey (1954)

Though a single rodlike individual taken as a starting-point may be less than one five-thousandth of an inch in length, under natural circumstances it multiplies at a rate which _within five days_ would cause its descendants _to fill all the oceans to the depth of one mile_. ❋ Henry Edward Crampton (N/A)

A score of rodlike arms projected from the main trunk, arms that were equipped for nearly every purpose. ❋ Hal K. Wells (N/A)

It was an irregular gray oval, about sixteen inches by four at its widest and tapering up in front to a cone about six inches high, into which a rodlike member, darker gray, was slowly collapsing and dribbling oily yellow stuff. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)

In some animals a central rodlike filament extends forward for about two-thirds of the length of the head, while in others a rounded body is seen near its center. ❋ Unknown (1918)

A high power of the microscope also reveals the bacteria in the shape of little rodlike bodies of homogeneous texture with their brilliant spores. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)