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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
2. 2
   a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips wordnet
3. 3
   A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
4. 4
   A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.

Synonyms

All synonyms

boughbranchburgeondeadwoodflagellumfork

Etymology

From Latin stolō. Doublet of stole.

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