(n) a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium, Syn.genus Gastroboletus
(n) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary, Syn.strobe, strobe light
(n) tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree, Syn.weymouth pine, Pinus strobus, eastern white pine
(n) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life, Syn.space biology, astrobiology
(n) Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium, Syn.Lagarostrobus franklinii, Dacrydium franklinii
‖n.; pl.Strobilae [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; anything twisted, a pine cone. ] (Zool.) (a) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae. (b) A mature tapeworm. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. strobole. ] [ Written also strobil. ]1. (Bot.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Biol.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; a whirling + -scope. ] 1. An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]
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