||Stro*bi"la (?), n.; pl. Strobilæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; anything
||twisted, a pine cone.] (Zoöl.) (a) A form of the larva of certain
||Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The
||body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely
||into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ, or
||young medusæ. (b) A mature tapeworm.
Strob`i*la"ceous (?), a. [See Strobila.] (Bot.) (a) Of or pertaining to
a strobile or cone. (b) Producing strobiles.
Strob`i*la"tion (?), n. (Zoöl.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously
dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths;
transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.
Strob"ile (?), n. [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. &?;: cf. F. strobole.]
[Written also strobil.] 1. (Bot.) 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.
2. (Biol.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals
differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one
of the forms that occur in metagenesis.