STOLON

noun Etymology: New Latin ~-, stolo, from Latin, branch, sucker; akin to Old English stela stalk, Armenian stełn branch Date: 1601 1. a horizontal branch from the base of a plant that produces new plants from buds at its tip or nodes (as in the strawberry), a hypha (as of rhizopus) produced on the surface and connecting a group of conidiophores, an extension of the body wall (as of a hydrozoan or bryozoan) that develops buds giving rise to new zooids which usually remain united by the ~