ˈstōlən noun
( -s )
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin stolon-, stolo shoot, branch, sucker of a plant; akin to Armenian stełn branch, stalk, Old Latin stlocus place — more at stall
1.
a. : a horizontal branch from the base of a plant that is either above or below ground and produces new plants from buds at its tip or nodes (as in the strawberry) — called also runner
b. : a hypha produced on the surface and connecting a group of conidiophores (as in fungi of the genus Rhizopus )
2. : a more or less prolonged extension of the body wall (as of an anthozoan, hydrozoan, bryozoan, or ascidian) from which buds are developed giving rise to new zooids and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolon
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