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

"Like long rows of hyphens, slender cylindric, non-motile chains joined end to end."

From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Rather low; leaves ½´ broad or more; staminate spike sessile or very nearly so; pistillate spikes cylindric and loose, the upper one or two contiguous; bracts very broad.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Fruit very large; oblong cylindric; blackish, subacid, and of mild and agreeable flavor.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Hence if the length of the cylindric film is less than its circumference, it is in stable equilibrium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various