What is "semicylinder"

Usage examples of "semicylinder".

This structure was well exhibited in an abnormal specimen, in which one of the two cotyledons failed to produce a petiole, whilst the other produced one consisting of an open semicylinder ending in a sharp point, formed of the parts just described.

I made in former years such a research with regard to tuning forks of prismatic form, that is to say, of a constant rectangular section continuing even into the bent portion where the parallel branches are united by a semicylinder, at the middle of which is the wrought iron rod as well as the branches.

The four tanks surrounding theirs were filled with water, and their tank was divided lengthwise between their room and another semicylinder that had been filled with heavy metals.

Bramah patented quill nibs made by splitting quills and cutting the semicylinders into sections which were shaped into pens and adapted to be placed in a holder.

He had seen structures of all shapes and sizes -- narrow skyscrapers, vast-spreading one-stories, polyhedra, domes, spheres, semicylinders, and erect and inverted full and truncated cones and pyramids.

He had seen structures of all shapes and sizes—narrow skyscrapers, vast-spreading one-stories, polyhedra, domes, spheres, semicylinders, and erect and inverted full and truncated cones and pyramids.