Crossword-Solution: STROBILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strobile | n. | 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. |
| Strobile | n. | An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. |
| Strobile | n. | Same as Strobila. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STROBILE | anagram | BITROLES |
We have 4 clues for the answer “STROBILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pine cone | 1 answer |
| Pine cone, e.g. | 1 answer |
| PINE tree fruit | 3 answers |
| CONE ___ | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STROBILE (4)
Showing long root.] Strobiliformis means fir-cone form; so called from the similarity of its undeveloped form to that of the strobile of the pine.
Both the bracts and bractlets enlarge greatly during the development of the ovary, and form, when fully grown, the membranous scales of the strobile (fig.
Fertile flowers in short axillary and solitary spikes or catkins; bracts foliaceous, imbricated, each 2-flowered, in fruit forming a sort of membranaceous strobile.
The flowers are pale yellow, crowded in the heads, the upper petal (_standard_) broad, and arched over the _straight_ pod, turning bright brown, which gives the head the appearance of a hop strobile.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1973–1991).