Strobilate

Quick meaning: Strobilate is a verb meaning (intransitive, biology) To produce a strobile, a cone-shaped life form that is a stage of asexual reproduction that some invertebrates pass through.

Meaning

(intransitive, biology) To produce a strobile, a cone-shaped life form that is a stage of asexual reproduction that some invertebrates pass through.

Example Sentences

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.

"Strobilation is like: All right, the male jellyfish releases his sperm into the water and the female jellyfish, her eggs catch them, right? So, when they fuse, it turns into a little polyp. The polyp hooks on to a rock, and the temperature and different types of food make the polyp grow faster. So that’s what we try to do, make them strobilate faster."

Word Forms

• strobilates
• strobilating
• strobilated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include strigulate, sporulate, stylopize, sporolate, endosporulate, alveolize.

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