sto|lon

sto|lon
sto|lon «STOH lon», noun.
1. Botany. a) a slender branch along the ground that takes root at the tip and grows into a new plant. A very slender, naked stolon with a bud at the end is a runner. b) a rhizome or rootstock of certain grasses, used for propagation.
2. Zoology. a rootlike growth in a compound organism. It is a process of the soft tissue joining a bud or zooid to the main part.
[< Latin stolō, -ōnis a shoo sucker of a plant]

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