cigar
noun
a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
cigarlike
-
a word derived from
cigar.
Example Sentences
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To plant seedlings with bushier roots, the company acquired a machine that pumps out cigarlike tubes of soil wrapped in brown paper and produces far more seedlings a week than a human could manage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Perseverance collects most of its samples using a small drill, producing chalk-stick-sized specimens that each fit within cigarlike tubes measuring less than 15 centimeters long.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2023
Ultimately Perseverance will place dozens of samples in small cigarlike tubes, caching them on the surface to await future collection.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2022
He ate two of the three greasy, cigarlike shapes cordially pressed upon him in return.
From Penrod by Booth Tarkington
We saw it soon as a cylindrical, cigarlike shape, rather smaller than the Planetara, but similar of design.
From Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings
