cylindraceous

[ sil-in-drey-shuhs ]

adjective

1. resembling a cylinder.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cylindraceous¹

First recorded in 1670–80; cylind(e)r + -aceous

Example Sentences

LITTORÉLLA, L. Flowers monœcious; the male solitary on a mostly simple naked scape; calyx 4-parted, longer than the cylindraceous 4-cleft corolla; stamens exserted on very long capillary filaments.

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Corolla bell-shaped or cylindraceous, not longer than the calyx, 5-lobed above; the lobes imbricated or convolute in the bud, the tube with 5 minute appendages within.

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Corolla with a cylindraceous or funnel-form tube, and a more or less unequal spreading 5-lobed border; lobes rounded, the expanded throat naked.

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Corolla ovate or cylindraceous, 5-toothed.

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Cylindraceous, approaching to the Cylindrical form, terete and not tapering.

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