strobile

• strobil

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.

strobile (plural strobiles)

2. (botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine.

   Synonyms: strobilus, cone

   Hyponym: pinecone

4. (biology) 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.

   Synonym: strobilus

6. (zoology) A jointed series of segments in the body of an invertebrate.

   Synonym: strobila

• “strobile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• “strobile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Bristole, Libertos, bit roles

• IPA^(key): /stʁɔ.bil/

• Audio (France (Agen)):

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• Hyphenation: stro‧bile

strobile m (plural strobiles)

1. strobile

• “strobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔ.bɪ.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔː.bi.le]
• Hyphenation: stro‧bi‧le

strobile

1. vocative singular of strobilus