strobile
 毬果


 Strob·ile n.  [Written also strobil.]
 1. Bot. 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.
 2. Biol. An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
 3. Zool. Same as Strobila.

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 strobile
      n : cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
          [syn: cone, strobilus]