stolon
Americannoun
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Botany. a prostrate stem, at or just below the surface of the ground, that produces new plants from buds at its tips or nodes.
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Zoology. a rootlike extension of the body wall in a compound organism, as a bryozoan, usually giving rise to new members by budding.
noun
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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
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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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See runner
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Zoology A stemlike structure of certain colonial organisms, such as hydroids, from which new individuals arise by budding.
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Etymology
Origin of stolon
1595–1605; < Latin stolōn- (stem of stolō ) branch, shoot, twig
Example Sentences
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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
Saxifraga sarmentosa: circumnutation of an inclined stolon, traced in darkness on a horizontal glass, from 7.45 A.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
A Runner, of which the Strawberry presents the most familiar and characteristic example, is a long and slender, tendril-like stolon, or branch from next the ground, destitute of conspicuous leaves.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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