Strobile Definition

strōbīl, strōbil; sträbil
noun
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(botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.

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(biology) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as the tapeworm; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

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(zoology) A strobila or jointed segment.

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Singular:
strobile
Plural:
strobiles

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