Strobila Definition

strō-bīlə
strobilae
noun
A part or structure that buds to form a series of segments, especially:
American Heritage Medicine
The main, jointed body of a tapeworm.
Webster's New World
The attached stage of polyp scyphozoan jellyfishes during which the immature jellyfishes are released by transverse budding.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Strobila

Noun

Singular:
strobila
Plural:
strobilae

Origin of Strobila

  • New Latin from Greek strobilē twisted plug of lint from strobilos pine cone strobilus

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

  • From New Latin strobila, from Ancient Greek στροβἶλη (strobilē).

    From Wiktionary

Strobila Sentence Examples

  • The body, or " strobila," consists of a usually minute organ of attachment (scolex or its representative) which is imbedded in the intestinal membrane, and of a series of segments that arise from the base of the scolex and increase in size distally.

  • The Cestodes of Elasmobranch fish offer more convincing examples of independent growth of the proglottides, for these are often set free with only the male organs developed, and each attains twice the size of the parental strobila.

  • In this state the scyphistoma is termed a strobila.

  • To the right, strobila condition of the scyphistoma, consisting of thirteen metameric segments; the uppermost still possesses the sixteen tentacles of the scyphistoma; the remainder have no tentacles, but are ephyrae, each with eight bifid arms (processes of the disc).

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