Also 8–9 strobil. [a. F. strobile or ad. L. strobīl-us, Gr. στρόβῑλ-ος STROBILUS, also στροβῑλ-η STROBILA.]

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  1.  Bot. = STROBILUS 1.

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1777.  Robson, Brit. Flora, 33. A strobil is a pericarpy formed of scales lying over one another, as in Pine or Birch.

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1785.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxi. (1794), 300. The fruit [of the magnolia] is a strobile or scaly cone of bivalvular capsules.

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1836.  J. M. Gully, Magendie’s Formul. (ed. 2), 149. The strobiles of the hop.

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1857.  Henfrey, Bot., § 126. When the rachis bears large, persistent, imbricated scales, it forms a cone or strobile, as in the Firs and Pines.

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  2.  Zool. = STROBILA 2.

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1855.  T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd. (ed. 2), 136. While the segments of the Strobile remain conjoined, they seem to enjoy a complete community of life and of movement.

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1864.  T. S. Cobbold, Entozoa, 105. The separate joints of which the strobile is composed are denominated proglottides or zooids.

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1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, 137. (Taenia), The entire colony is called a ‘strobile.’

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