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

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

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A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.

Examples of stolons in a Sentence

The turf-formation, which is characteristic of open situations in cool temperate climates, results from an extensive production of short stolons, the branches and the fibrous roots developed from their nodes forming the dense " sod."

Such outgrowths are called stolons, and a stolon may be simple, i.e.

In the order Stolonifera the zooids spring at intervals from branching or lamellar stolons, and are usually free from one another, except at their bases, but in some cases horizontal solenia arising at various heights from the body-wall may place the more distal portions of the zooids in communication with one another.

In the section Asiphonacea the colonies are upright and branched, springing from membranous or ramifying stolons.

The order contains about fifty species in fifteen genera, twelve of which occur in fresh water while three are marine; and includes both floating and submerged forms. Hydrocharis floats on the surface of still water, and has rosettes of kidney-shaped leaves, from among which spring the flower-stalks; stolons bearing new leafrosettes are sent out on all sides, the plant thus propagating itself in the same way as the strawberry.

Lateral stems, or stolons, formed by these grasses result in a dense turf canopy, even at low mowing heights.

Some have creeping stolons or stems just below the surface.

It has a short swollen stem base, long stout adventitious roots and strong leafy, epigeal stolons that root at the nodes.

There are some interesting experiments which can be done with growth regulators to investigate their effect on the growth of potato stolons.

The small translucent zooids (approximately 4 mm long) are budded from stolons and generally rather closely packed.

Produces slender stolons and spreads to form bright clumps.

Leafy stolons that lay on the ground, root into the soil.

Though mostly treated as a half-hardy annual, the roots are perennial in the warm soils of southern gardens, spreading by stolons into handsome tufts.

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