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adjectiveresembling a rod
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Definition that contains rodlike
- notochord a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates
- vibrion curved rodlike motile bacterium
- spirillum any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form
- order spirochaetales higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms
- bacteroid a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
- spirillum spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water
- spirilla any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form
- bacteroides type genus of Bacteroidaceae; genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals
- vibrio curved rodlike motile bacterium
- spirochaetales higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms