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Definition of Stolon
1. Noun. A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips.
Definition of Stolon
1. n. A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
Definition of Stolon
1. Noun. (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding; see also Stolonifera. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stolon
1. a type of plant stem [n -S] : STOLONIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stolon
Literary usage of Stolon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"We should add that the examination of these onto- genetic processes in the stolon
is exceedingly difficult.* B. Development of the Buds on the stolon. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"The first layer of platforms constitutes the plate-like stolon of origin.
The tubes are divided at intervals by partitions called tabulae which may be ..."
3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"They are compared by Gegenbaur to a spoon, the bowl of which is formed by the
branchial sack, and the handle by the stalk attaching the bud to the stolon. ..."
4. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"In its relation to the formation of buds the stolon of the ... In the latter,
bud-generations sprout from the stolon; they are arranged in rows, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"The parent stock, as soon as the stolon is separated, regenerates the lost segments
and in like manner develops a second and possibly a third or fourth bud. ..."
6. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"Ex. house-leek (Sempervivum). 192./A stolon is a branch which proceeds from an
elevated part of the stem, and afterwards ..."
7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"is at all affected by the fact that the property stolon, instead of being owned
by one or by two or more jointly, is tlie several property of different ..."
8. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"The bare receiving of stolen goods, knowing them to be stolon, did not make an
accessory at common law. But if a party received «roods from the thief to ..."
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