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

Antenn� short, cylindric, gradually thickening to their tip, which is naked and abruptly truncate.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

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

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

In a cylindric drum, in perfect equilibrium on its axis, are formed channels as seen in Fig.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

P. hemispher. then depr. yellowish ochre; g. adnexo-decur., broad; s. cylindric, scaly, viscid, ring very narrow, persistent. ramentacea, Bull.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George