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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
sto·lon       [stoh-luhn] Pronunciation Key
–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.
[Origin: 1595–1605; < L stolōn- (s. of stolō) branch, shoot, twig]

—Related forms
sto·lon·ic       [stoh-lon-ik] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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sto·lon       (stō'lŏn', -lən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Botany A shoot that bends to the ground or that grows horizontally above the ground and produces roots and shoots at the nodes.
  2. Zoology A stemlike structure of certain colonial organisms from which new individuals arise by budding.


[Latin stolō, stolōn-, shoot; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]

sto'lon·ate' (-lə-nāt') adj.
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stolon

noun
a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips 

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stolon       (stō'lŏn')  Pronunciation Key 
  1. Botany 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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Stolon

Sto"lon\, n. [L. stolo, -onis: cf. F. stolon. Cf. Stole a stolon, 1st Stool.]

1. (Bot.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

2. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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