Thesaurus: strobile

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1. n. A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
2. n. An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
3. n. Same as Strobila.
4. n. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
5. 1. (Bot.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3. 2. (Biol.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. 3. (Zoöl.) Same as Strobila.
6. A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an amentin certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
7. n cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts