What does "strobile" mean?

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.

What is a synonym for "strobile"?

Common synonyms include: cone, strobilus, ament, head, pine cone, spike.

noun

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Noun

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

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