strobile
Plural: strobiles
Noun
- The conical, multiple fruit of certain trees, like a pinecone.
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
- 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.
- A strobila or jointed segment.
Examples
- He managed to play STROBILE, a word as prickly and hard to fit as its definition suggests.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin strobilus (“a pine cone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στρόβιλος (stróbilos).
Scrabble Score: 10
strobile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstrobile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
strobile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
strobile: valid Words With Friends Word