strobilate

English

Etymology

From strobilus or strobila + -ate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɹəʊbɪleɪt/
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Verb

strobilate (third-person singular simple present strobilates, present participle strobilating, simple past and past participle strobilated)

  1. (intransitive, biology) To produce a strobilus or strobila (layered, conelike structure).
    • 2007 September 16, “My Family Has High Hopes for Me Because They Know I’m Going to Do Great Things.”, in New York Times:
      So that’s what we try to do, make them strobilate faster.
    • 2014, Theo Tait, “Water-Borne Zombies”, in London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5:
      These, in turn, reproduce by cloning; when conditions are right, they ‘strobilate’, elongating and splitting into a stack of discs which develop into larvae, and break away to become medusae.

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