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    STROBILUS

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    Irregular inflected form: strobili  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bractsplay

    Synonyms:

    cone; strobile; strobilus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("strobilus" is a kind of...):

    reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strobilus"):

    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 ("strobilus" 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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