Definition of Sausage-shaped

1. Adjective. Shaped like a sausage.

Exact synonyms: Allantoid
Similar to: Rounded

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sausage-shaped

sauroidichnite
saurology
sauropod
sauropod dinosaur
sauropoda
sauropods
sauropsid
sauropsida
sauropsids
sauropterygia
sauropterygian
sauropterygians
saururae
saury
sausage-shaped (current term)
sausage balloon
sausage casing
sausage casings
sausage curl
sausage dog
sausage factory
sausage fest
sausage fests
sausage fingers
sausage hound
sausage meat
sausage meats
sausage parties
sausage party

Literary usage of Sausage-shaped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bacteria and Their Products by German Sims Woodhead (1891)
"In very old cultures well-marked mycelium formation may be met with in which the cells are ellipsoidal, elongated, or sausage- shaped, or somewhat ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"According to Bertram's observations, the sausage-shaped morula may now break up into iU component cells or spores, which become scattered in the body-cavity ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1899)
"A passage of fecal matter followed, then mucus and blood in considerable quantity, but the sausage-shaped tumor remained unchanged. After a second injection ..."

4. Micro-organisms and Fermentation by Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen, Alfred Jörgensen, Alexander Kenneth Miller, A. E. Lennholm (1900)
"Microscopic appearance of the cells in the films:— At 20-34° C. and 6-7° C., the cells are smaller and more sausage-shaped than in the sedimentary yeast. ..."

5. Micro-organisms and Fermentation by Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen, Alfred Jörgensen, Alexander Kenneth Miller, A. E. Lennholm (1900)
"(Figs. 58, 59.) Usually a bottom-fermentation yeast. Sedimentary forms grown in wort:—Mostly oval and round cells; sausage-shaped cells are rare (Fig. 58). ..."

6. Medusae of the World by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1910)
"Its slender (solid ?), brittle tentacles. 8 sausage-shaped gonads, and long, cylindrical peduncle are all characters of ..."

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