Associations to the word «Strobile»
Noun
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Wiktionary
STROBILE, noun. (botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
STROBILE, noun. (biology) 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.
STROBILE, noun. (zoology) A strobila or jointed segment.
Dictionary definition
STROBILE, noun. Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts.
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