Definition & Meaning | English word STROBILUS

Definitions of STROBILUS

1. (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.
2. (zoology) A strobila, a layered reproductive stage in jellyfish, in which the swimming medusa form is produced.

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.
• expansa has a typical cestode body, consisting of the anterior scolex, followed by the neck and a highly extended body proper, the strobilus.
• She found that plants in the Coniferales family generally reduce the number of sporophylls in the strobilus and a modified compound sporophyll appears later in disguised forms but loses one of the sporophyll members.
• These last are whitish and firmly fixed to the wing (this thin membrane also keeps the seed well attached to the scale during maturation); furthermore, among the typical distinctive features of the group, we have the micropylar fluid of the strobilus absent, no resin vesicles on the seeds and the presence, in the vascular cylinder of the young root, of two characteristic small resiniferous canals.

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