stolon

English

Etymology

From Latin stolō. Doublet of stole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstəʊlɒn/

Noun

stolon (plural stolons)

1. (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
2. (zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
3. (mycology) A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.

Derived terms

• stoloniferous

Translations

botany: runner

• Bulgarian: ластар m (lastar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 匍匐莖／匍匐茎 (zh) (púfújīng)

• Danish: udløber c
• Dutch: uitloper (nl) m
• Finnish: rönsy (fi)
• French: stolon (fr) m
• German: Stolo m, Stolon m, Ausläufer (de) m
• Hungarian: inda (hu)
• Japanese: 匍匐茎 (ja) (ほふくけい, hofukukei), 匍匐枝 (ja) (ほふくし, hofukushi)
• Kazakh: төселме сабақ (töselme sabaq)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utløper m, stolon m

• Persian: دستک (fa)
• Portuguese: estolhão
• Russian: столо́н (ru) m (stolón)
• Spanish: estolón m
• Swedish: utlöpare (sv) c, reva (sv) c, stolon c
• Tagalog: sangambusngi

Anagrams

• Tolson, lost on

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

stolon m (plural stolons)

1. stolon

Descendants

• → Romanian: stolon

Further reading

• “stolon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stolon.

Noun

stolon m (plural stoloni)

1. stolon

Declension

Declension of stolon

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) stolon	stolonul	(niște) stoloni	stolonii
genitive/dative	(unui) stolon	stolonului	(unor) stoloni	stolonilor
vocative	stolonule		stolonilor