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

Segments of the basal leaves wedge-lanceolate; head of fruit cylindric Anemone, Anemone cylindrica. 37b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

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

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Antheridia most often on a short branch, globose-oblong or cylindric.

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

They are then about an inch long, with downy cylindric bodies more or less marked with rather pale yellow stripes, touched here and there with purplish green or dotted slightly with fine black dots.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.