Strobilation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Asexual reproduction by division into body segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A form of asexual reproduction by division into body segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfish
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under syllidian.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Formation or production of strobiles; metameric division of a scyphistoma or hydra tuba into medusæ.
  • n. Gemmation of the successive links or joints of a tapeworm; also, the transverse fission of various worms.
  • Variant
    syllidian