stolon
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin stolō.
Noun [edit]
stolon (plural stolons)
- (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; see also Stolonifera.
