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stro⋅bi⋅lus

  [stroh-bahy-luhs]
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–noun, plural -li  [-lahy] . Botany.
1. a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
2. a conelike structure composed of sporophylls, as of the club mosses and horsetails.
Also called stro⋅bile  [stroh-bahyl, -bil] .

Origin:
1700–10; < NL strobīlus, LL: pine cone < Gk stróbīlos pine cone, whirlwind, whirling dance, deriv. of stróbos whirling around
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stro·bi·lus   (strō-bī'ləs)   
n.   pl. stro·bi·li (-bī'lī) or stro·biles
A conelike structure, such as a pine cone, the fruit of the hop, or a cone of a club moss, that consists of overlapping sporophylls spirally arranged along a central axis.

[Late Latin, pine cone, from Greek strobilos, twisted object, pine cone, from strobos, a whirling; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots.]
stro'bi·la'ceous (-bə-lā'shəs) adj.
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strobilus   (strō-bī'ləs)  Pronunciation Key 
Plural strobili (strō-bī'lī)

  1. A reproductive structure that consists of sporophylls or scales arranged spirally or in an overlapping fashion along a central stem, as in horsetails, some lycophytes, and many kinds of gymnosperms. For example, the cones of pine trees are strobili.

  2. An inflorescence or ripened multiple fruit in which many floral bracts are arranged in an overlapping fashion, as in the hop plant.


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