strobile, n. [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. : cf. F. strobole.].
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. [1913 Webster]
An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. [1913 Webster]