STROBILATION
Strob`i*la"tion, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.
STROBILE
Strob"ile, n. Etym: [L. strobilus a pine cone, Gr. strobole.]
[Written also strobil.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, — one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Strobila.
STROBILIFORM
Stro*bil"i*form, a.