Definition & Meaning | English word STROBILUS
STROBILUS
Definitions of STROBILUS
- (botany) A cone-shaped fruiting body sensu stricto of gymnosperms and vascular plants other than angiosperms, bearing either seeds or spores, but sensu lato may refer to similarly structured catkins and cones in angiosperms; usage arbitrary according to preferences of various authorities.
- (zoology) A layered reproductive stage in jellyfish, in which the swimming medusa form is produced.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using STROBILUS in a Sentence
- Like all pines, it has strobili, structures that function as a flower but look like a small cone, which for the Torrey pine look like a yellow bud in a male strobilus and like a small red cone in a female.
- A conifer cone or, in formal botanical usage, a strobilus, : strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads.
- As with other cycads, it is dioecious, with the males bearing pollen cones (strobilus) and the females bearing groups of megasporophylls.
- In the Talmud, Abba Arikha in the name of Reuben ben Strobilus cited Laban's and Bethuel's response to Abraham's servant as a proof text for the proposition that God destines a woman and a man for each other in marriage in Moed.
- expansa has a typical cestode body, consisting of the anterior scolex, followed by the neck and a highly extended body proper, the strobilus.
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