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cylindric

ADJECTIVE
cylindrical
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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 Ethel Dorrance

Cones 6 to 10 in. long, usually cylindric, of a beautiful brown color, with thick scales, armed with very small, slightly recurved prickles.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

The gown itself, of cylindric shape, expanded by means of a farthingale, is covered with knobs, knots, pearls, ribbons, fringes, and ornaments of all sorts.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand

Now let us consider a cylindric film contained between two equal fixed disks.

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


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