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STROBILE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cone; strobile; strobilus

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Nouns denoting plants

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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