strobile

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

strobile (plural strobiles)

  1. (botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
  2. (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.
  3. (zoology) A strobila or jointed segment.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “strobile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

  • “strobile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Noun

strobile m (plural strobiles)

  1. strobile

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