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Definition of Galbulus
1. Noun. The seed-producing cone of a cypress tree.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Galbulus
Literary usage of Galbulus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"galbulus, and transverse section. Seed, and longitudinal section. Description.—Nearly
globular, about 8 millimeters (J inch) in diameter; dark purplish, ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"Its fleshy fruit, composed of consolidated scales, inclosing nut-like seed, and
forming what is technically called a galbulus, places it near ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Interrogations, a List of Classified Questions Upon Subjects by James Hartley Beal (1896)
"... galbulus. 792. Name as many examples as you can of the preceding varieties of
fruits from official drugs. 793. What is the Seed? ..."
4. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"(Conus, or Strobilus, Rich., Mirb.; galbulus, ... The fruit of the Juniper is a
galbulus, with fleshy coalescent ..."
5. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"The galbulus differs from the Strobilus only in being round, and having the heads
of the ... The fruit of the Juniper is a galbulus, with fleshy coalescent ..."
6. The Birds of the Latin Poets by Ernest Whitney Martin (1914)
"Oriolus galbulus. The Oriole (Baltimore and Orchard) is a favorite bird in all
the American poets. The bobolink on its fall migration, when known as the ..."
7. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Such a cone when spherical, and of thickened scales with narrow base, as that of
Cypresses, has been teemed a galbulus, an unnecessary name. ..."
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