strobilate
English
Etymology
From strobilus + -ate.
Verb
strobilate (third-person singular simple present strobilates, present participle strobilating, simple past and past participle strobilated)
- (intransitive, biology) To produce a strobilus (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’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 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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Related terms
- strobilus