strobila

American  

[stroh-bahy-luh] / stroʊˈbaɪ lə /

noun

Zoology.

plural

strobilae

1. the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region.

2. 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.

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strobila British  

/ ˈstrəʊbɪlə /

noun

1. the body of a tapeworm, consisting of a string of similar segments (proglottides)

2. 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; strobilus

Example Sentences

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 Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)

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 Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)

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 Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)