stolon
IPA: stˈoʊɫʌn
noun
- (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
- (zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
- (mycology) A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
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Examples of "stolon" in Sentences
- Stolons arise from the base of the plant.
- Thank you very much for editing and clean up of stolon.
- David's stolon link led me to tuber, where I learnt this.
- Before new tuber formation begins the stolon must be a certain age.
- In many weeks, cobra plants will protrude from each section of stolon.
- In fact, the potatoes are not attached to the root system but a stolon.
- The plant reproduces by seed and rhizome and it sometimes spreads via stolon.
- Early tuber development from explanted stolon nodes of Solanum tuberosum var.
- The stolon article has it right, but the tuber and rhizome articles are wrong.
- Mother and daughter plants are connected by a short stolon, forming dense mats.
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