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-producing cone of junipers and cypresses

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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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