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stolonate

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sto⋅lon⋅ate

  [stoh-luh-nit, -neyt]
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–adjective
having stolons; developing from a stolon.
Origin:
< NL stolōnātus; see stolon, -ate 1
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sto·lon   (stō'lŏn', -lən)   
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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