Scyphistoma Definition

sī-fĭstə-mə
scyphistomae, scyphistomas
noun
The small, attached polyp stage of the scyphozoan jellyfishes, preceding the strobila stage.
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Noun

Singular:
scyphistoma
Plural:
scyphistomae, scyphistomas, scyphistomata

Origin of Scyphistoma

  • New Latin Greek skuphos cup Greek stoma mouth

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek a cup + the mouth.

    From Wiktionary

Scyphistoma Sentence Examples

  • The development from the egg may be direct, or may take place with an alternation of generations (metagenesis), in which a non-sexual individual, the so-called scyphistoma or scyphopolyp, produces by budding the sexual medusae.

  • Each taeniola bears a strongly developed longitudinal muscle-band, stated by Claus and Chun to be developed from the endoderm, like the retractor muscles of the anthopolyp, but by other investigators it is affirmed that each retractor muscle of the scyphistoma arises from the lining of a funnel-shaped ectodermal ingrowth (" Septaltrichter ") growing down from the peristome inside each taeniola, in a manner similar to the infundibular cavities of Lucernaria, which in their turn are homologous with the sub f genital cavities of Scypho l A .` medusae.

  • In this state the scyphistoma is termed a strobila.

  • D, First constriction of the Aurelia scyphistoma to form the pile of ephyrae or young medusae.

  • The single ephyra carries the sixteen scyphistoma tentacles, which will atrophy and disappear.

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