‖ stolo
(ˈstəʊləʊ)
Pl. stolones (stəˈləʊniːz).
[L.: see stolon.]
1. Bot. = stolon 1. rare.
| 1725 Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Elm, Where the Suckers and Stolones are supernumerary. 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 84 Stolo, a sucker. 1807 J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 120 When the stolo has taken root. 1849 Balfour Man. Bot. 638. |
2. Zool. = stolon 2. stolo prolifer, the germ-stock of certain compound organisms.
| 1878 F. J. Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 391 The parent sending forth a runner (stolo) which is composed of form-elements belonging both to ectoderm and endoderm. Ibid., What is performed in the Ascidiæ by means of off⁓shoots starting from the surface of the body, is carried out in the Cyclomyaria and Thaliadæ by a special organ—the germ stock or stolo prolifer. 1887 Athenæum 5 Feb. 194/2 The peculiar mode of budding in Pyrosoma..from a ventral stolo prolifer. |