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

This stolon was rendered permanently sinuous to a slight degree, and was thicker where sinuous than elsewhere, apparently from its longitudinal growth having been checked.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

As this stolon was so long we thought that its growth was nearly completed, so we tried another which was thicker and shorter, viz.,

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles