Meaning

3 senses
  1. A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.

    Stolo, Stolon, Ausläufer

    столо́нstolón

  2. A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.

  3. A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.

More definitions
  • a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
botany: runner:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
botany: runner:

Origin

From oblique stem of Latin stolō, stolōnis. Doublet of stole.

From oblique stem of Latin stolō, stolōnis. Doublet of stole.

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Forms

plural: stolons
Singularstolon
Pluralstolons

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips:runneroffset

Word family

5 related words

See also

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