n.
- Botany. A shoot that bends to the ground or that grows horizontally above the ground and produces roots and shoots at the nodes.
- Zoology. A stemlike structure of certain colonial organisms from which new individuals arise by budding.
[Latin stolō, stolōn-, shoot.]
stolonate sto'lon·ate' (-lə-nāt') adj.
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