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stolon

sto·lon [ stṓ lòn, stṓlən ] (plural sto·lons)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. plant shoot: a long stem or shoot that arises from the central rosette of a plant and droops to the ground. It may form new plants where it touches the soil.

2. organism's anchoring part: a budding of the body wall in simple organisms, especially an extension of some colonial organisms such as hydroids that anchors the colony to a rock or other substrate

[Early 17th century. < Latin stolon-]

sto·lon·ate [ stṓlə nàyt ] adjective
sto·lon·if·er·ous [ stlə níffərəss ] adjective
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