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Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
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strobile
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone. 2 (context biology English) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also ...
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n. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts [syn: cone , strobilus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strobile \Strob"ile\, n. [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. ?: cf. F. strobole.] [Written also strobil .] (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. (Biol.) An individual ...
Usage examples of strobile.
All over Erith, in hovels and bothies, in cottages and crofts, in marketplaces, smithies, and workshops, in barracks, taverns, malt-houses, and inns, in manor houses, stately homes, and Towers, in halls and keeps, castles and palaces, they set holly garlands on rooftrees, ivy festoons around inglenooks, sprays of mistletoe above the doors and strobiled wreaths of pine and fir and spruce on every available projection.
I pick up a fir cone, an immobile strobile, and I put it in front of you and ask this question.
III, the poor fool who was Avtokrator for a couple of unhappy years before Strobiles Sphrantzes.
When cultivated it produces the female catkins, or strobiles which are so well known as Hops, and are so largely used for brewing purposes.
Our druggists prepare a tincture from the strobiles with spirit of wine, and likewise a thickened extract.
The lassitude felt in hot weather at its first access, or in early spring, may be well met by an infusion of the leaves, strobiles and stalks as Hop tea, taken by the wineglassful two or three times in the day, whilst sluggish derangements of the liver and spleen may be benefited thereby.