Definition of "strobile" []

• A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone. (noun)
• An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as the tapeworm; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. (noun)
• A strobila or jointed segment. (noun)

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• "The ripened pistillate ament is called a strobile and bears tiny winged nuts, packed in the protecting curve of each brown and woody scale."
• "In the strobile of the hop, _Humulus Lupulus_, a like elongation may sometimes be met with, generally in association with a more or less leafy condition of some of the scales."
• "Cases of this kind, wherein the flowers of a pea and of the foxglove were replaced by collections of small ovate green scales packed one over the other till they resembled the strobile of a hop, have been already alluded to."