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

cône

Tannenzapfen

Zapfen

pomme de pin

dennenappel

estróbilo

Etymology

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