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strobile

WordNet
  1. (n) strobile
    cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Strobile
    (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.
  2. Strobile
    (Zoöl) Same as Strobila.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) strobile
    In botany, a cone (which see, and cuts under Lepidostrobus and pericarp). Also strobilus.
  2. (n) strobile
    In zoology, a strobila.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Strobile
    strob′il (bot.) a cone—also Strob′ilus
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. strobilus, a pine cone, Gr. : cf. F. strobole,

Usage in literature

Strobiles (cones) of spruce, 69. "Getting Acquainted with the Trees" by J. Horace McFarland

Fertile flowers in a short catkin, head, or strobile. "The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States" by Asa Gray