Pl. strobilæ. Zool. [mod.L. strobīla, a. Gr. στροβἰλη plug of lint twisted into the shape of a fir-cone.]
1. A stage in the development of certain Hydrozoa. Also attrib.
1842. Encycl. Brit., XXI. 1014/2. In a small volume published some years ago, this Swedish naturalist [Sars] described a new genus of Medusides under the name of Strobila, from its great similitude to a fir cone; but he now assures us that the Strobila is the young of Medusa aurita.
1857. Carpenter, Microscope (ed. 2), 504. Fig. 245 Successive Stages of Development of Medusa-buds from Strobila-larva. Ibid., 505. The progenitor of a new colony of Strobilæ.
1861. J. R. Greene, Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent., 66. Sars … observing the Scyphistoma at a still later stage,… gave it, from its resemblance to an artichoke, the name of Strobila.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 782. The Scyphostoma passes in late autumn into the Strobila stage.
2. A segmented tapeworm, consisting of a scolex and a chain of proglottides.
1864. T. S. Cobbold, Entozoa, 105. Every cestode passes through several distinct phases during its life-history. In the ordinary colonial or tapeworm condition it has been termed the strobila (Van Beneden).
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 225. The head and neck are often termed ‘scolex,’ the joints, ‘proglottides,’ and the whole Tapeworm, ‘strobila.’
