cylinderlike

• 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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cylinderlike

And 38.1/2 by 12. are 462. for the cylinderlike surface.

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

There were other fixtures in the small cylinderlike chamber besides that odd bed in which he had lain.

From The Time Traders by Andre Norton

She slowly unwrapped a long, slim, cylinderlike parcel, and brought to view what it contained.

From Under the Country Sky by Frances Rogers

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