noun. In botany, a cone (which see, and cuts under Lepidostrobus and pericarp). Also strobilus.

noun. In zoology, a strobila.

noun. 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.

noun. An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

noun. Same as Strobila.

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

noun. 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.

noun. A strobila or jointed segment.

noun. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

"The ripened pistillate ament is called a strobile and bears tiny winged nuts, packed in the protecting curve of each brown and woody scale."

reproductive structure  

fir cone  galbulus  pinecone  

cone  strobila