strobilan.
/strəʊˈbʌɪlə/ Zoology.
1. A stage in the development of certain Hydrozoa. Also attributive.
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1842 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 1014/2 In a small volume published some years ago, this Swedish naturalist [Sars] described a new genus of Medusides under the name of Strobila, from its great similitude to a fir cone; but he now assures us that the Strobila is the young of Medusa aurita.
1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope xi. 542 Fig. 226 Successive Stages of Development of Medusa-buds from Strobila-larva.
1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope xi. 543 The progenitor of a new colony of Strobilæ.
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 66 Sars..observing the Scyphistoma at a still later stage,..gave it, from its resemblance to an artichoke, the name of Strobila.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 782 The Scyphostoma passes in late autumn into the Strobila stage.
2. A segmented tapeworm, consisting of a scolex and a chain of proglottides.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > member of > segmented
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1864 T. S. Cobbold Entozoa 105 Every cestode passes through several distinct phases during its life-history. In the ordinary colonial or tapeworm condition it has been termed the strobila (Van Beneden).
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 225 The head and neck are often termed ‘scolex’, the joints, ‘proglottides’, and the whole Tapeworm, ‘strobila’.
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