rodlet
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See also: rödlet
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[edit]rodlet (plural rodlets)
- Any small rod, or rod-shaped structure (especially on the surface of some fungal spores)
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 7:
- It issues in one continuous appetizing rodlet [...], which looks as if it retained the shape of an earthworm's tract (but watch, watch, do not be deflected!).