Strobile

noun

1. In <em>botany</em>, a cone (which see, and cuts under <internalXref urlencoded="Lepidostrobus">Lepidostrobus</internalXref> and <em>pericarp</em>). Also <internalXref urlencoded="strobilus">strobilus</internalXref>.
2. In <em>zoology</em>, a strobila.
3. A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See <xref urlencoded="cone">cone</xref>, n., 3.
4. An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
5. Same as <er>Strobila</er>.