Zool. [f. STROBIL-A + -IZE + -ATION.] = STROBILATION.
1884. A. Sedgwick & Heathcote, trans. Claus Zool., I. 256. At first the Scyphistoma appears to multiply only by budding; the second mode of reproduction, the process of strobilization, begins later.
1914. MacBride, Text-Bk. Embryol., I. 72. By a repetition of the process the Scyphistoma comes to look like a pile of plates, and is called a Strobila. This process is known as strobilization.