stolon

American  

[stoh-luhn] / ˈstoʊ lən /

noun

1. Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.

2. Zoology. a rootlike extension of the body wall in a compound organism, as a bryozoan, usually giving rise to new members by budding.

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stolon British  

/ ˈstəʊlən, ˌstəʊləˈnɪfərəs /

noun

1. a long horizontal stem, as of the currants, that grows along the surface of the soil and propagates by producing roots and shoots at the nodes or tip

2. a branching structure in lower animals, esp the anchoring rootlike part of colonial organisms, such as hydroids, on which the polyps are borne

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stolon Scientific  

/ stō′lŏn′ /

1. See runner

2. Zoology A stemlike structure of certain colonial organisms, such as hydroids, from which new individuals arise by budding.

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Other Word Forms

• stolonic
  adjective
• stoloniferous
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of stolon

1595–1605; < Latin stolōn- (stem of stolō ) branch, shoot, twig

Example Sentences

Runners are a type of stolon that runs above the ground and produces new clone plants at nodes at varying intervals: strawberries are an example.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Indeed, the image of a Ramisyllis stolon amidst the branches of its generative worm is strikingly similar to photographs of the fungus Fusarium bearing its distinctive boat-shaped spores.

From Scientific American • Aug. 8, 2021

Of these, 333 transcripts were upregulated during the transition from stolon to tuber, with the most highly upregulated transcripts encoding storage proteins.

From Nature • Jul. 13, 2011

Zoœcia arising singly or in groups from an adherent stolon; free statoblasts oval.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

During neither of these days did the stolon bend downwards through geotropism or its own weight.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles