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

S. refléxum, L. Glabrous, erect, 1° high; leaves crowded, cylindric, subulate-tipped, spreading or reflexed; flowers yellow, pedicelled.—Coast of Mass.; western N. Y.; rare.

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

If the paper is brought around so that the edges meet, whatever curve may form a cross section the surface is said to inclose a cylindric space.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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)

P. 6-9 cm. exp. edge patent, golden-tawny or reddish-tan; g. adnato-decur. straw-colour then ochre; s. 10-17 cm. cylindric, yellowish-white, silky-viscid; sp. ——. collinitus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George