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

This is evident, since the cylindric surface of the cylinder is 2πr × 2r, or 4πr2, and the two bases have an area πr2 + πr2, making the total area 6πr2.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

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

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Hence the equilibrium of a cylindric film whose length is greater than its circumference is unstable.

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