STROBILE

Strob″ile (?), n. [[L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. �: cf. F. strobole.]] [Written also strobil.] 1. 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. 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. 3. (Zoöl.) Same as Strobila.