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Definition of Strobiles
1. strobile [n] - See also: strobile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strobiles
Literary usage of Strobiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits by Harriet Louise Keeler (1900)
"strobiles erect, sessile or short-stalked, t%' long. oblong-ovoid, an inch to an
inch and a half in length, three-quarters of an inch thick. ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... in strobiles, or cones, with large persistent, concave, entire scales, which
enlarge as the fruit ripens. The part of the hop so much used in brewing, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Bark either close and furrowed or peeling off in thin Sake»: young branchlets
pubescent: Ivs. usually cordate at base and pubescent beneath : strobiles ..."
4. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1922)
"strobiles oblong-ovoid, nearly sessile, erect, the lateral lobes of their scales
broad and slightly divergent; wing not broader than the nut: leaves with ..."
5. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"leaves deciduous : strobiles oblong i margins of the scales inflexed : bracts
... leaves in pairs, short, acute : strobiles ovate-conic : prickles of the ..."
6. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"leaves and sheath elongated ; strobiles ovate-conic, rounded at the base,
sub-solitary, about half as long as the leaves; scales dilated in the middle, ..."
7. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"leaves flat, denticulate, 2-rank- ed: strobiles ovate, terminal, scarcely longer
than the leaves. The bark is used in tanning leather. 30—100 i. ..."
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