Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a spherical cone formed of thickened peltate scales with a narrow base, as in the cypress, or berry-like with fleshy coherent scales, as in the juniper. See cut under
Cupressus .
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- noun A
fleshy seed-producingcone ofjunipers andcypresses
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- noun the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree
Etymologies
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Latin galbulus ("cypress cone").
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