cylindrical

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adj tubular

adjective. round

adjective. round

adjective. ball-shaped; semicircular area

1640s, probably from cylindric (but this is attested only from 1680s), from Greek kylindrikos, from kylindros (see cylinder) + -al (1).

Corinne put out her hand and patted Pascal's cylindrical wrist.

The asci are cylindrical, slightly pointed at the apex, 8-spored.

A cylindrical building, unexpected in this wilderness, loomed up.

The legs were cylindrical, jointed at knee and thigh with huge discs.

Conic -al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point.

A great, black, cylindrical shell came with a demoniac shriek.

His groping hand closed about an object hard and cylindrical.

I use 'round' rather than 'cylindrical,' for simplicity's sake.

Mallet-heads are made square, cylindrical, and barrel-shaped.

In most cases it is cylindrical and it may be compressed in a few cases.