strobile (English, noun)
expansion: strobile (plural strobiles)
Senses:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A strobila or jointed segment.
Forms:
form: strobiles
tags: plural
form: strobil
tags: alternative