(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) Same as Strobila.

(3):

(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.