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)

If the paper is brought around so that the edges meet, whatever curve may form a cross section the surface is said to inclose a cylindric space.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Stipe very short or none, sporangia cylindric, brown 46.

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)

S. refléxum, L. Glabrous, erect, 1° high; leaves crowded, cylindric, subulate-tipped, spreading or reflexed; flowers yellow, pedicelled.—Coast of Mass.; western N. Y.; rare.

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