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.

Cone; an often scaly, imbricated fruit of pines, firs, and other trees.

A cone or cone like structure

An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

Same as Strobila.