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

"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

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

This is evident, since the cylindric surface of the cylinder is 2πr × 2r, or 4πr2, and the two bases have an area πr2 + πr2, making the total area 6πr2.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene