Stolon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany A shoot that bends to the ground or that grows horizontally above the ground and produces roots and shoots at the nodes.
  • n. Zoology A stemlike structure of certain colonial organisms from which new individuals arise by budding.
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  • n. A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
  • n. A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding; see also Stolonifera.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
  • n. An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany: In phanerogams, a reclined or prostrate branch which strikes root at the tip, developing a new plant. A very slender naked stolon with a bud at the end constitutes a runner, as of the strawberry. See also cut under
  • n. In mosses, a shoot running along or under the ground, and eventually rising into the air and producing fully leafed shoots.
  • n. In zoology, some proliferated part or structure, likened to the stolon of a plant, connecting different parts or persons of a compound or complex organism, and usually giving rise to new zooids by the process of budding. See cuts under Campanularia and Willsia.
  • n. Also stole.
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  • n. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plant organ   
    Cross Reference
    genital stolon   
    Variant
    scyphistoma   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stole   
     
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