different between strobilate vs strobilus

English

Etymology

From strobilus +? -ate.

Verb

strobilate (third-person singular simple present strobilates, present participle strobilating, simple past and past participle strobilated)

1. (intransitive, biology) To produce a strobilus (layered, conelike structure).
   • 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.

Related terms

• strobilus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (stróbilos). According to Liddell and Scott, 8th ed. 1882: of various meanings such as a pine-cone, something screwed up into a lump like a pine-cone, a pine tree and more.

Noun

strobilus (plural strobili)

1. (botany) A cone-shaped fruiting body in general
2. (botany) More particularly a more-or-less cone-shaped fruiting body of any of various gymnosperms and vascular sporophytes. According to source and context it might refer to a structure bearing either seeds or spores, that might or might not be seen as an infructescence; usage has varied arbitrarily among authors during the last two centuries.
3. (zoology) A layered reproductive stage in jellyfish, in which the swimming medusa form is produced.

Related terms

• strobilar
• strobilate

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