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

Fruit 1 to 1� in. long, cylindric, with spreading lobes to the scales.

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

Rather low; leaves ½´ broad or more; staminate spike sessile or very nearly so; pistillate spikes cylindric and loose, the upper one or two contiguous; bracts very broad.

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

They are of cylindric form, crimson in colour, and each stamen bears from two to six anther-cells.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

P. 5-9 cm. convexo-plane, even, glabrous, discoid, dingy yellow; g. emarginato-decur. crowded, subserrate, tan; s. 7-12 cm. cylindric, white, at first woolly-peronate; sp. 8-9 � 5. crassus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George