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

Antheridia most often on a short branch, globose-oblong or cylindric.

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

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

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

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 Jusserand, J. J.