n. | 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, |
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. | (Zool.) Same as Strobila. |
Noun | 1. | strobile - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts |