Strobile /(?)/

Strob·ile

Strobile

n.
  1. 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. (Bot.)
  2. An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis. (Biol.)
  3. Same as Strobila. (Zool.)