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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 863strike n. [OE. strican, to stroke, level out] (ARTHRO: Insecta)The deposition <strong>of</strong> Diptera eggs or larvae on a living host.string reef (MOLL: Bivalvia) Oysters crowded into a long, narrowaccumulation.striola a. [L. dim. stria, furrow] Finely impressed parallel lines.stripe n. [MD. strijp, stripe] A longitudinal color marking.strobila n.; pl. -lae [Gr. strobilos, anything twisted, pine cone]1. An organism, or stage <strong>of</strong> an organism, from which successiveannular disc embryos bud <strong>of</strong>f. 2. (CNID: Scyphozoa)A scyphistoma larva <strong>of</strong> a jellyfish consisting <strong>of</strong> ephyrae. 3.(PLATY: Cestoda) A tapeworm, consisting <strong>of</strong> scolex, 'neck',immature, mature and usually gravid proglottids.strobilation, strobilization n. [Gr. strobilos, anything twisted,pine cone] 1. The formation <strong>of</strong> a chain <strong>of</strong> body segmentationinto zooids. 2. (CNID: Scyphozoa) The ephyrae <strong>of</strong> jellyfish.see monodisk, polydisk. 3. (PLATY: Cestoda) Theproglottids.strobilocercoid n. [Gr. strobilos, anything twisted, pine cone;kerkos, tail; eidos, like] (PLATY: Cestoda) In Schistotaenia ,a cysticercoid that undergoes some strobilation.strobilocercus n. [Gr. strobilos, anything twisted, pine cone;kerkos, tail] (PLATY: Cestoda) A simple cysticercus withevidence <strong>of</strong> strobilation.stroma n.; pl. stromata [Gr. stroma, bed] Connective tissueframework <strong>of</strong> an organ.strombiform a. [Gr. strombos, a top, a spiral shell; L. forma,shape] (MOLL: Gastropoda) Roughly biconical, with expandedouter lip; said <strong>of</strong> the shell <strong>of</strong> Strombus .stromboid notch (MOLL: Gastropoda) In Strombus , a curve ornotch in the outer lip, above the anterior notch.strongylaster n. [Gr. strongylos, rounded; aster, star] (PORIF)A star-shaped spicule with small center and rays withrounded edges.strongyle n. [Gr. strongylos, rounded] 1. (NEMATA: Secernentea)A common name for the order Strongylida. 2.(PORIF) A diactinal monaxon (spicule) rounded at bothends.

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