- a variation of cylindrical.
cylindric
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U.S. warships pulled up alongside homeward-bound Soviet freighters while Russian crewmen obediently pulled back the canvas wrappings that covered the long, cylindric objects on the decks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They are then about an inch long, with downy cylindric bodies more or less marked with rather pale yellow stripes, touched here and there with purplish green or dotted slightly with fine black dots.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
Antenn� moderate or elongated, straight, slender, the club nearly terminal, short, thick, cylindric, ending in an abrupt, short and pointed hook.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William
Sporangia ovate or cylindric, minute, to 3.5 mm.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
This is evident, since the cylindric surface of the cylinder is 2πr × 2r, or 4πr2, and the two bases have an area πr2 + πr2, making the total area 6πr2.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene