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
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Sporangia ovate or cylindric, minute, to 3.5 mm.
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.
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
Comatricha gracilis Wing. is slender, cylindric and has small spores hardly reaching 6 �; should perhaps be now set out as a separate species; it is evidently purely an American phase.
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)