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Definition of Strobilus
1. Noun. Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts.
Generic synonyms: Reproductive Structure
Specialized synonyms: Fir Cone, Galbulus, Pinecone
Group relationships: Conifer, Coniferous Tree, Horsetail, Club Moss, Club-moss, Lycopod
Derivative terms: Conical
Definition of Strobilus
1. Noun. (botany) cone ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A layered reproductive stage in jellyfish, in which the swimming medusa form is produced. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strobilus
1. strobile [n -LI] - See also: strobile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strobilus
Literary usage of Strobilus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"THEORY OF THE strobilus* THE term strobilus is commonly applied to those fertile
... The construction of the vegetative region below the strobilus in these ..."
2. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"9 strobilus, ripe. branous sepal, closely enveloping the ovary. OVARY free, ovoid
or sub-globose, sub- compressed, 1-celled; style terminal, very sbort or 0 ..."
3. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"105 there is shown a transverse section of a young ovulate strobilus of ...
a very small part of a somewhat tangential longitudinal section of a strobilus, ..."
4. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"part of the strobilus. The two distinct ovules show that they are young by the
... strobilus must have existed at some time among the ancestral forms of ..."
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