Crossword-Solution: STROBILA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strobila | n. | A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae. |
| Strobila | n. | A mature tapeworm. |
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| STROBILA | anagram | ORBITALS |
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| body of a tapeworm, consisting of a string of similar segments | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
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Sentences with STROBILA (5)
How small and unimportant is the difference between the changes which a caterpillar undergoes before becoming a moth, and those of a strobila before becoming a medusa.
But in the case of the strobila we say that it is not changed, but dies, and is no part of the personality of the medusa.
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.
The hydromedusæ, _Stomobrachium mirabile_, _Phialidium variabile_, _Gastroblasta Raffælei_, are known to increase by division.[66] Several actinians and many corals divide longitudinally, while the scyphistoma of the scyphomedusæ produce free-swimming ephyras by cross-divisions of the fixed strobila stage.
Released from its mother cyst and placed in suitable conditions, it goes on living, and gives rise at its posterior end by budding to the strobila, the proglottids of which eventually become sexual individuals.