stolon
noun
Meaning
- A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
- A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
- A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
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