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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