The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative singular with diverse senses: the toponym (see next note), cyclone, whirlwind, fir or pine tree, pine-cone, spinning top, or round ball; see LSJ s.v. There is an adjective with oxytone accent, strobilo/s, spinning, whirling; see LSJ s.v., Synagoge s.v., epsilon 3402 (gloss), and sigma 1208.
[1] (For this primary gloss see also ps.-Zonaras 1670.22 and Etymologicum Gudianum 512.26.) During the middle Byzantine period (ca. C8-C13 CE) Strobilos was an important Carian administrative, tax-collecting, and military post on the southern coast of the Halicarnassus Peninsula; see Foss in Kazhdan, s.v. Strobilos. The site (present-day Aspat, Turkey, 20km west of Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus; OCD(4) s.v.); Barrington Atlas map 61 grid E4) has a small harbor sheltered by a peninsula featuring a high, conical promontory resembling a pine-cone (next note); see Foss, pp. 147-151. Foss notes that nh=sos was used loosely for peninsulas almost completely surrounded by water as well as for genuine islands (ibid., p. 150 n.17).
[2] Similarly in other lexica, notably Synagoge sigma262 and Photius sigma627 Theodoridis. See also Etymologicum Magnum 730.40 (following Orion [Author, Myth], Etymologicum 146.25-7); Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica 110.3 and Eclogae 375; cf. kappa 2279 (gloss). Here Adler also cites a scholion (= scholia vetera) to Homer, Iliad 2.868 (web address 1), which notes that heavily forested Mount Phthires (mentioned by the poet as part of the homeland of the Carian leader Nastes of the Trojan contingent; in all likelihood Mount Latmos, looming east of Miletus; Barrington Atlas map 61 grids E2-F2) got its name from the cone of the local pine tree, small like a louse (fqei/r); see Kirk, pp. 260-1.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.232.2 (attributed to Crinagoras): Philoxenides dedicates foods and medicines to Pan and Priapus; see Gow and Page, vol. I, pp. 224-5, and other extracts from this epigram at omicroniota 126, alpha 1665, pi 2050, gamma 110, and epsilon 2143. The marrow of the pine-cone would seem to be the rachis (central stem), but Gow and Page (vol. II, pp. 252-4) suggest that this refers to the putatively medicinal seed kernels within the cones. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms A reads a)nqoi\ (the marrows may blossom).]
[4] Quotation (already at theta 533 and kappa 55) unidentifiable. [Adler reports that mss GFVM transmit a)ne/mou (a kind of wind), and that ms A omits nukto\s, night.]