Having a cylindrical form or shape; resembling a cylinder in appearance.
From 'cylindr-' (cylinder) plus the suffix '-form' (having the shape of). This Latin-influenced adjective combines two classical roots to indicate cylindrical resemblance.
The word 'cylindriform' appears most often in scientific descriptions of ancient artifacts and fossils—archaeologists love it because it precisely describes the thousands of clay pipes and tool handles they excavate that are neither perfectly cylindrical nor clearly something else!
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