Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a cone (which see, and cuts under
Lepidostrobus and pericarp). Alsostrobilus . - noun In zoology, a strobila.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See
cone , n., 3. - noun (Biol.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
Strobila .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
scaly multiple fruit resulting from theripening of anament in certainplants , such as thehop orpine ; acone . - noun biology An
individual asexually producingsexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as thetapeworm ; one of the forms that occur inmetagenesis . - noun zoology A
strobila or jointed segment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ripened pistillate ament is called a strobile and bears tiny winged nuts, packed in the protecting curve of each brown and woody scale.
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In the strobile of the hop, _Humulus Lupulus_, a like elongation may sometimes be met with, generally in association with a more or less leafy condition of some of the scales.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Cases of this kind, wherein the flowers of a pea and of the foxglove were replaced by collections of small ovate green scales packed one over the other till they resembled the strobile of a hop, have been already alluded to.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I discovered in the maritime parts of Georgia, particularly on the banks of the Alatamaha, another new species of Magnolia, whose leaves were nearly of the figure of those of this tree, but they were much less in size, not more than six or seven inches in length, and the strobile very small, oblong, sharp pointed and of a sine deep crimson colour, but I never saw the flower.
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Page 408 here! the pompous Magnolia, reigns sovereign of the forests; how sweet the aromatic Illisium groves? how gaily flutters the radiated wings of the Magnolia auriculata? each branch supporting an expanded umbrella, superbly crested with a silver plume, fragrant blossom, or crimson studded strobile and fruits!
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The first grows in the open pine forests, in tufts or clumps, a large conical strobile disclosing its large coral red fruit, which appears singularly beautiful amidst the deep green fern-like pinnated leaves.
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