strobile


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Synonyms for strobile

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

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Sample Stage I Pinus waste wood 25[degrees]C to 300[degrees]C Apple prunning 25[degrees]C to 350[degrees]C Dry Branches of Araucaria 25[degrees]C to 350[degrees]C angustifloia Empty-seeds of Araucaria 25[degrees]C to 380[degrees]C angustifolia female strobiles Sample Stage II Pinus waste wood 300[degrees]C to 500[degrees]C Apple prunning 350[degrees]C to 550[degrees]C Dry Branches of Araucaria 350[degrees]C to 500[degrees]C angustifloia Empty-seeds of Araucaria 380[degrees]C to 500[degrees]C angustifolia female strobiles Sample Stage III Pinus waste wood 500[degrees]C to 1000[degrees]C Apple prunning 550[degrees]C to 1000[degrees]C Dry Branches of Araucaria 500[degrees]C to 1000[degrees]C angustifloia Empty-seeds of Araucaria 500[degrees]C to 1000[degrees]C angustifolia female strobiles
The species has separate male and female plants and only the female vines produce the cones, or strobiles as they are sometimes called.
These items, as well as more calorific foods, such as strobiles of Norway spruce, inflorescences of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) and fruits of glossy buckthorn, have not previously been recorded in the diet of D.
The female flowers are in leafy conelike catkins called strobiles. Much of the value of Hops depends on the abundance of this powdery substance which contains 10 per cent of Lupulin the bitter principle to which Hops owe much of their tonic properties.
Although this natural sleep aid is a component of beer, tossing back a glass of beer before bed won't have the same effect as drinking a tea made from 1 to 2 teaspoons of hops flowers (known as "strobiles"), which will often ease you into a deep, restful sleep.
The strobiles of hops contain the potent phytoestrogen 8-prenylnaringenin (8-PN) (Overk 2005).
Hops are female flower clusters, commonly known as cones or strobiles, of the hop plant, which are primarily used as a flavouring and stability agent in beer.