cylinder-like

• a word derived from cylinder.
  cylinder

  noun

  a surface or solid bounded by two parallel planes and generated by a straight line moving parallel to the given planes and tracing a curve bounded by the planes and lying in a plane perpendicular or oblique to the given planes.

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cylinder-like

Water to have only four enormous cylinder-like digester buildings instead of eight, which it didn’t have room for.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2015

Instead of the cylinder-like cap of the Turk's-Cap species, this one has a short, broad tuft of white wool and red spines, like a skull-cap.

From Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation by W. Watson

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