bacilliform

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bacilliform (adjective; Latin bacillum, little stick; forma, shape): 1. Rodshaped.

2. (Arthropoda: Insecta) In certain male Diptera, refers to a pair of sclerites in the postabdomen joining the hypandrium and epandrium.