Stolon Definition

stōlŏn, -lən
noun
A creeping stem that lies on or above the soil surface and bears foliage leaves, as in the strawberry or creeping bent grass.
Webster's New World
A stemlike, cylindrical structure, as in certain hydroids and tunicates, giving rise to buds from which new individuals grow.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
stolon
Plural:
stolons

Origin of Stolon

  • Latin stolō stolōn- shoot stel- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin stolō.

    From Wiktionary

Stolon Sentence Examples

  • Zooecia either arising from a stolon, without lateral connexion with one another, or laterally united to form sheets.

  • In the first place, buds may be produced only from the hydrorhiza, which grows out and branches to form a basal stolon, typically net-like, spreading over the substratum to which the founderpolyp attached itself.

  • Budding from the hydrocaulus may be combined with budding from the hydrorhiza, so that numer ous branching colonies arise from a common basal stolon.

  • Buds may be produced from the manubrium, radial canals, ring-canal, or tentaclebases, or from an aboral stolon (Narcomedusae).

  • A " stolon " of unknown origin produces thirty-two buds, which become as many Polypodia; each has twenty-four tentacles and divides by fission repeated twice into four individuals, each with six tentacles.

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Words Starting With

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