/stroh buy"leuhs/ , n. , pl. strobili /-luy/ . Bot.
1. a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
2. a conelike structure composed of sporophylls, as of the club mosses and horsetails. Also called strobile /stroh"buyl, -bil/ .
[ 1700-10; strobilus, LL: pine cone stróbilos pine cone, whirlwind, whirling dance, deriv. of stróbos whirling around ]