stolon

IPA: stˈoʊɫʌn

(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.

Examples of "stolon" in Sentences

Often, roots grow naturally from the nodes on the stolon.
"This much anyway," he added, holding a broken stolon in his fingers.
If the grass produces a stolon, it is usually possible to make cuttings from the individual nodes.
1 A stolon is a stem that grows along the ground, producing at its nodes new plants with roots and upright stems.
The tubers are the swollen ends of stolons arising from the crown of the plant; each stolon bears only one tuber.
The first thing I saw on the Marylebone platform was the crude picture in green chalk of a stolon of _Cynodon dactylon_.
Some grasses (e.g. dubo and kikiyu) can also be propagated from stolon cuttings1, but these are not normally used in bio-engineering.
If this happens you only have to cut the stolon mid-way between the nodes and carefully transplant it with its roots and shoots intact.
The plant grows best in cool moist conditions under short day-lengths of about 12 hours (the production of stolons and stolon-borne tubers is stimulated by even shorter days of 10 hours).
The Phlox family is a numerous one, and the species are not only numerous but extremely dissimilar, consisting of the dwarf woody trailers, or _P. procumbens_ section, the oval-leafed section (_P. ovata_), the creeping or stolon-rooted (_P. stolonifera_) section, and the one now under notice, which differs so widely that many have seemed puzzled that these bold tall plants are so closely related to the prostrate, Whin-like species.