strobile

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
2. 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.
3. A strobila or jointed segment.

Concepten

dennenappel

Synoniemen

cone

strobilus

strobila

strobilae

Vertalingen

pinha

cône

strobilo

pomme de pin

estróbilo

estròbil

estróbilo

Tannenzapfen

Zapfen

κωνοειδής καρπός

Etymologie (Engels)

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