strobilateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈstɹəʊbɪleɪt/

動詞

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

1. (intransitive, biology) To produce a strobile, a cone-shaped life form that is a stage of asexual reproduction that some invertebrates pass through.
   • 2007 September 16, Saki Knafo, quoting Neil Allicock, “My Family Has High Hopes for Me Because They Know I’m Going to Do Great Things”, in The New York Times‎:

     "Strobilation is like: All right, the male jellyfish releases his sperm into the water and the female jellyfish, her eggs catch them, right? So, when they fuse, it turns into a little polyp. The polyp hooks on to a rock, and the temperature and different types of food make the polyp grow faster. So that’s what we try to do, make them strobilate faster."

   • 2014, Theo Tait, “Water-Borne Zombies”, in London Review of Books, volume 36, number 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.

関連する語

参照

• “strobilate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• brasiletto