strobila

[ stroh-bahy-luh ]

noun

, Zoology.

, plural stro·bi·lae [stroh-, bahy, -lee].

1. the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
2. the chain of segments of the larva of a jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa, each segment of which gives rise to a free-swimming medusa.

strobila

/ ˈstrəʊbɪlə /

noun

1. the body of a tapeworm, consisting of a string of similar segments (proglottides)
2. a less common name for scyphistoma

Word History and Origins

Origin of strobila¹

1835–45; < New Latin, originally coined as a genus name < Greek strobī́lē a plug of lint shaped like a fir cone; strobilus

Word History and Origins

Origin of strobila¹

C19: from New Latin, from Greek strobilē plug of lint twisted into a cone shape, from strobilos a fir cone

Example Sentences

Strobila, stro-bī′la, n. a discomedusan at the stage succeeding the scyphistoma: a segmented tapeworm.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

These three phases of growth, before the relation between them was understood, have been mistaken for distinct animals, and described as such under the names of Scyphistoma, Strobila, and Ephyra.

From Project Gutenberg

Strobila of a Discophore; Aurelia flavidula.

From Project Gutenberg

It is not strange that the relation between the various phases of this extraordinary series of metamorphoses, so different from each other in their external aspects, should not have been recognized at once, and that this singular Acaleph should have been called Scyphostoma in its simple Hydroid condition, Strobila after the transverse division of the body had taken place, Ephyra in the first stages of its free existence, and Aurelia in its adult state,—being thus described as four distinct animals.

From Project Gutenberg

In this condition our Jelly-Fish has been called Strobila.

From Project Gutenberg