rod-shaped

Questions about rod-shaped

What does rod-shaped mean?

rod-shaped means "formed like a bacillus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rod-shaped?

rod-shaped has 2 syllables and divides as rod--shaped under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for rod-shaped?

Close synonyms include bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rodlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rod-shaped a common word?

rod-shaped is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.