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

It is convenient to begin by a study of the cylindric surface, and a piece of paper may be curved or rolled up to illustrate this concept.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

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)

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