rod-shaped

adjective2

1. •
   Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.

   • Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each. — 2008
2. •
   Describing a form of bacterium shaped like a rod; bacilliform.

   • S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter. — 1981