Strobile
Strobile , noun
[Latin strobilus a pine cone, Greek {not transcribed}: compare French strobole.]
1.
(Botany) 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.
(Biology) 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.
(Zoology) Same as Strobila.