Pl. stolones. [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, trans. 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 offshoots 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.
