Bot. [Irregularly ad. L. stolo: see STOLON. (The anomalous form may have been due to confusion with stole var. STOOL sb., tree-root.)] = STOLON.

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1806.  Turton, Linné’s Syst. Nat., VII. Expl. Terms, Stole, a sucker or scion from the root of plants.

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1832.  Planting, 91, in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb., III. Stole.—The first stage of growth of a shoot emitted or sent out from the sides of a root or stub or coppice-stool.

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1835.  Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 182. The Stole (stolo), which may be considered the reverse of the sucker.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 1101/2. Stole, stolon.

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