strobilusn.
/strəʊˈbʌɪləs/ 1.
a. Botany. A fir-cone, or any fruit resembling a fir-cone; an inflorescence made up of imbricated scales, as that of the hop.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Strobilus, the Artichoke-Plant; also a wild Pine-tree; or a Pine-apple.]
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Strobilus, among botanists, a kind of pericarpium, formed of a number of vaginæ with contorted points applied close to one another.
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 479/2 [article Pinus] The calix of the female is a strobilus, containing two flowers.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 325 The fruit of the Hop..is by some botanists considered as a kind of Cone with membranous scales, to which the name of Strobilus or Strobile has been given.
b. In cryptogams: An aggregation of sporophylls resembling a fir-cone.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [noun] > parts of > strobilus
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1891 Bower in Proc. Royal Soc. 50 267 The sporophyte [of Phylloglossum] consists of two parts:—(i) the protocorm, with its protophylls and roots, and (ii) the strobilus, with sporophylls and sporangia.
1893 Bower in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 185 511 The strobili have been cut radially, tangentially, and transversely.
2. Zoology. = strobila n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > member of > segmented
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1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. v. 697 The animal, or rather colony of animals, in the form of a tape-worm or strobilus, occupies the alimentary canal.
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