Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.