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

They came to a block lofted with tenements on one side and shadowed by huge, cylindric gas tanks on the other.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

Antheridia most often on a short branch, globose-oblong or cylindric.

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

P. 5-9 cm. convexo-plane, even, glabrous, discoid, dingy yellow; g. emarginato-decur. crowded, subserrate, tan; s. 7-12 cm. cylindric, white, at first woolly-peronate; sp. 8-9 � 5. crassus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

They are of cylindric form, crimson in colour, and each stamen bears from two to six anther-cells.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward