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noun
A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: strobilus, cone
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as a tapeworm or a jellyfish; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: strobilus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A jointed series of segments in the body of an invertebrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: strobila
Antonyms: none provided
noun
cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cone, strobilus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reproductive structure
Narrower terms: fir cone, galbulus, pinecone
History
From Latin strobilus (“a pinecone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στρόβιλος (stróbilos). All senses refer to things that look like, or somewhat like (via fancied resemblance), a pinecone.
