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

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

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

"Like long rows of hyphens, slender cylindric, non-motile chains joined end to end."

From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

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