strobile meaning: definition, etymology

strobile

noun

Etymology From Latin strobilus (“a pinecone”) and Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στρόβιλος (stróbilos). All senses refer to things that look like, or somewhat like (via fancied resemblance), a pinecone.

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine.

Biology, Natural sciences An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as a tapeworm or a jellyfish; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology A jointed series of segments in the body of an invertebrate.

Derived terms: strobiliferous, strobiliform, strobiloid
Related terms: strobilaceous, strobilar, strobilate, strobilation, strobiliform, strobiloid, Strobilomyces