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strophiole Bot.|ˈstrɒfɪəʊl|
[a. mod.L. strophiolum (Gærtner 1788; often incorrectly strophiola), a use of L. strophiolum, dim. of strophium chaplet, ad. Gr. στρόϕιον, f. στροϕ-, στρέϕειν to turn, twist. Cf. F. strophiole.]
An excrescence or tubercle surrounding the hilum of certain seeds.
1839Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 247 Mirbel has ascertained that in Euphorbia Lathyris the strophiole is the fungous foramen of the primine. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 342 Other botanists..instead of using the two terms strophioles and caruncles as synonymous with each other, apply the former term only when they proceed from the hilum, and the latter to those from the micropyle. 1870Henfrey's Bot. §428 Turneraceæ... Seeds albuminous, with a strophiole or false aril. 1874R. Brown Man. Bot. 502 Strophiole.—Under the name of Strophiolæ, Gärtner has described certain cellular excrescences on the integument of various seeds. |