strobilate
English
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)
- (intransitive, biology) To produce a strobilus or strobila (layered, conelike structure).
- 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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- “strobilate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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