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Definition of Strobile
Strobile Strobile Strob"ile, n. [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. ?: cf.
F. strobole.] [Written also strobil.]
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. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Strobila.