meaning of strobile
1. 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. 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. Same as Strobila.
4. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
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