n.
Pronunciation: ' st ō -l ə n, - ˌ län
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin stolon-, stolo, from Latin, branch, sucker; akin to Old English stela stalk, Armenian ste ł n branch
Date: 1601
1 a : a horizontal branch from the base of a plant that produces new plants from buds at its tip or nodes (as in the strawberry) ― called also runner b : a hypha (as of rhizopus) produced on the surface and connecting a group of conidiophores
2 : 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 stolon
S stolon 1a