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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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