a. [Corresponds to mod.F. cylindracé, and prob. to a mod.L. *cylindrāceus, f. cylindrus: see prec. and -ACEOUS.] Of the form of or resembling a cylinder; cylindrical.

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1676.  H. More, Rem. on 2 late Disc., 31. Let there be another Cylindraceous Vessel.

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1686.  Plot, Staffordsh., 221. Several cylindraceous cavities generally running parallel with the grain of the wood.

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1839.  Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. 197. Body enclosed in an elongated cylindraceous sac.

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1856–8.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 231. Lumbricus.… Body cylindraceous.

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