strobile

In botany, a cone (which see, and cuts under Lepidostrobus and pericarp). Also strobilus.

In zoology, a strobila.

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.

An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, — one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

Same as Strobila.

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.

An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as the tapeworm; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

A strobila or jointed segment.

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