Strōb'ile, n.
n. [Fr. strobile, Lat. strobilus, Gr. στρόβιλος, from στρέφειν, to twist.] [Also strobil.]
- (Bot.) A multiple fruit in the form of a cone or head, as that of the hop or pine, especially the latter and its related species; a cone.
- (Physiol.) An individual producing, non-sexually, sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tape-worm. It is one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
