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

The cylindric forms were for some reason few, and when noted were short, though often surmounting stems of double the usual length.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Calyx.—With cylindric tube five lines long; wholly white, scarious, except the five filiform green ribs, continued into needle-like lobes.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

In a cylindric drum, in perfect equilibrium on its axis, are formed channels as seen in Fig.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John