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Stolon n.

(Bot.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

(Zool.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... obvious reason why it should ever die. The living substance B, in a manner, answers to the sucker. If we could restore the continuity which was once possessed by the portions of B, contained in all the individuals of a direct line of descent, they would form a sucker, or stolon, on which these individuals would be strung, and which would ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley