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STROBILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strobile mean?
• STROBILE (noun)
The noun STROBILE has 1 sense:
1. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Familiarity information: STROBILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("strobile" is a kind of...):
reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strobile"):
fir cone (the seed-producing cone of a fir tree)
galbulus (the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree)
pinecone (the seed-producing cone of a pine tree)
Holonyms ("strobile" is a part of...):
conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)
horsetail (perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America)
club-moss; club moss; lycopod (primitive evergreen moss-like plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles)
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