strobilate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To produce a strobile, a cone-shaped life form that is a stage of asexual reproduction that some invertebrates pass through. intransitive
    — "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."

词形变化

strobilates present,singular,third-person strobilating participle,present strobilated participle,past strobilated past

词源

By surface analysis, strobil(e) + -ate, or strobil(us) + -ate.
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