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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Strobile

· Strob·ile · IPA
01 n. 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.
  1. 1.
    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.(Bot.) See: Cone
  2. 2.
    An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.(Biol.)
  3. 3.
    Same as Strobila.(Zool.) See: Strobila