Bot. [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.
1839. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (ed. 3), 247. Mirbel has ascertained that in Euphorbia Lathyris the strophiole is the fungous foramen of the primine.
1861. Bentley, 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.
1870. Henfrey’s Bot., § 428. Turneraceæ…. Seeds albuminous, with a strophiole or false aril.
1874. R. Brown, Man. Bot., 502. Strophiole.—Under the name of Strophiolæ, Gärtner has described certain cellular excrescences on the integument of various seeds.
