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strobile


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  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.  (Zo["o]l.)  Same  as  {Strobila}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  strobile 
  n  :  cone-shaped  mass  of  ovule-  or  spore-bearing  scales  or  bracts 
  [syn:  {cone},  {strobilus}] 




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