Definition of cylindrical
: relating to or having the form or properties of a cylinder
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The cylindrical structure flows into a duller, funnel-like cone, which tapers into a tower with rocket nozzles.
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State officials monitor mosquito populations using cylindrical traps that lure the insects with a light and then suck them in with a fan.
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The laws, however, are different in Southern Indiana where bottle rockets, Roman candles, fire crackers, sparklers, ground spinners, cone fountains, wheels and cylindrical fountains are legal.
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The teas come in distinctive tumbler-like cups or sleek cylindrical bottles.
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The sticky, cylindrical rice-cake street-food snacks ddeokbokki are treated like a composed pasta, grilled to offset their inherent chewiness and blanketed with lamb neck ragu and Parmesan shavings.
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Workmen created these early artificial straws by winding paper around a thin cylindrical form, then covering them in paraffin.
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Single and mixed bouquets of red, yellow and white carnations, purple roses, goldenrod, chubby pink ranunculus, delicate Queen Anne’s lace and buttery acacia stand in tall, cylindrical glass vases.
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Food specialties: Tandoori is a style of Indian cooking using a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven fired to a high heat by wood or charcoal.
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First Known Use of cylindrical
1646
CYLINDRICAL Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of cylindrical for English Language Learners
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: shaped like a cylinder
CYLINDRICAL Defined for Kids
Definition of cylindrical for Students
: having a long round shape
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