Associations to the word «Stolon»

Wiktionary

STOLON, noun. (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
STOLON, noun. (zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding; see also Stolonifera.

Dictionary definition

STOLON, noun. A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats