strobila
Americannoun
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strobilae
plural
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the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region.
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the chain of segments of the larva of a jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa, each segment of which gives rise to a free-swimming medusa.
noun
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the body of a tapeworm, consisting of a string of similar segments (proglottides)
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a less common name for scyphistoma
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Etymology
Origin of strobila
1835–45; < New Latin, originally coined as a genus name < Greek strobī́lē a plug of lint shaped like a fir cone; see strobilus
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A medusa begets a ciliated larva, the larva begets a polyp, the polyp begets a strobila, and the strobila begets a medusa again; the cycle of reproduction being completed in the fourth generation.
From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
But in the case of the strobila we say that it is not changed, but dies, and is no part of the personality of the medusa.
From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
How small and unimportant is the difference between the changes which a caterpillar undergoes before becoming a moth, and those of a strobila before becoming a medusa.
From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
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