strobile

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

cone

strobilus

strobila

strobilae

Translations

pinha

strobilo

cône

pomme de pin

dennenappel

estróbilo

estròbil

estróbilo

Tannenzapfen

Zapfen

κωνοειδής καρπός

Etymology

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