strobile

Other forms of strobile

plural

strobiles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about strobile

What does strobile mean?

strobile means "cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts".

How many syllables are in strobile?

strobile has 3 syllables: stro-bi-le. The stress falls on "stro".

What is another word for strobile?

Close synonyms include cone, strobilus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strobile a common word?

strobile is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.