Strobilus Definition

strō-bīləs
strobili
noun
A cone of a gymnosperm or of a seedless vascular plant such as a horsetail or a club moss.
American Heritage

Cone.

Webster's New World
Any of various similar structures, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant, which is composed of small flowers obscured by overlapping green bracts.
American Heritage

Strobila.

Webster's New World

(zoology) A layered reproductive stage in jellyfish, in which the swimming medusa form is produced.

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Origin of Strobilus

  • Late Latin pine cone from Greek strobilos twisted object, pine cone from strobos a whirling streb(h)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Strobilus Sentence Examples

  • C, Fertile shoot showing two leaf-sheaths and the terminal strobilus.

  • Abnormal specimens of Equisetum in which the strobilus is interrupted by whorls of leaves are of interest for comparison with the fructification of Phyllotheca.

  • This similarity is closest in Archaeocalamites, an ancient type found in Upper Devonian rocks; in this the strobilus consists of peltate sporangiophores inserted in whorls on the axis.

  • Though the high specialization of this ancient group of plants renders the determination of their natural affinities difficult, indications are afforded by anatomy and the morphology of the strobilus.

  • The plant is reproduced by tubers, which resemble the protocorm in bearing first a number of protophylls and later the upright shoot with its single terminal strobilus.

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