strobile
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Latin strobilus (“a pine cone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek.
Noun edit
strobile (plural strobiles)
- (botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
- (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.
- (zoology) A strobila or jointed segment.
Translations edit
A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
- “strobile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
strobile m (plural strobiles)
Further reading edit
- “strobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.