[stro.bi.lus] n, pl -li [NL, fr. LL, pinecone, fr. Gk strobilos twisted object, top, pinecone, fr. strobos action of whirling; akin to strephein to twist] (ca. 1753) 1: an aggregation of sporophylls resembling a cone (as in the club mosses and horsetails)
2: the cone of a gymnosperm