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.
Etimologia (Anglès)
Latin strobilus (“a pine cone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek.