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Strobile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
  2. 2
    cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts wordnet
  3. 3
    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.
  4. 4
    A strobila or jointed segment.

Etymology

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

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