Strobile

n.	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.	(Zool.) Same as Strobila.

Noun

1.

strobile - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts Synonyms: strobilus, cone

club moss, club-moss, cone, conifer, coniferous tree, fir cone, galbulus, horsetail, lycopod, pinecone, reproductive structure, strobilus