stolon

[ stoh-luhn ]

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.

stolon

/ ˌstəʊləˈnɪfərəs; ˈstəʊlən /

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

stolon

/ stō′lŏn′ /

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

Derived Forms

• stoloniferous, adjective

Other Words From

• sto·lon·ic [stoh-, lon, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stolon¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of stolon¹

C17: from Latin stolō shoot

Example Sentences

Fistula fos sonus & stolon quod est emissio, quasi emissio soni vel vocis.

From Project Gutenberg

The first thing I saw on the Marylebone platform was the crude picture in green chalk of a stolon of Cynodon dactylon.

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The stems grow, moreover, exactly at right angles to the solid surface element to which the stolon is attached.

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The gill-piece excised contained no heart, no intestine, and no stolon, and all these organs were regenerated from the gills.

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In Clytia the polyps arise singly from the stolon, and the medusa is known as Phialidium (fig. 59).

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