strobile Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
    strobilus; cone.

WordNet

Strob"ile noun
Etymology
L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. : cf. F. strobole.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) 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. (Biol.) 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. (Zoöl.) Same as Strobila.

Webster 1913