'Strobile' definitions:

Definition of 'strobile'

noun

Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts [syn: cone, strobilus, strobile]

From: GCIDE

Strobile \Strob"ile\, n. [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. ?: cf. F. strobole.] [Written also strobil.]
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, n., 3. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
3. (Zool.) Same as Strobila. [1913 Webster]