a. Bot. and Zool. [f. mod.L. stolōnifer, f. stolōnem STOLON: see -FEROUS.] Producing stolons.

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1777.  Robson, Brit. Flora, 6. Stoloniferous, having scions, suckers or barren shoots, as in Creeping Crowfoot and Meadow Bugle.

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1786.  Abercrombie, Gard. Assist., Arrangem., 65. Stoloniferous, or shoot-bearing Chinese saxifrage.

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1840.  J. Buel, Farmer’s Companion, 161. Even the delicate stoloniferous rose is constantly changing its location in this way.

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1865.  Intell. Observer, No. 40. 301. Traversed at D by a stoloniferous passage.

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1872.  Brady, in Monthly Microsc. Jrnl., July, 33. [In the Foraminifera] It is not … unusual to find … two segments connected by a stoloniferous tube.

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1899.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., March, 113. So strong is the habit of stoloniferous growth.

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  Hence Stoloniferously adv.

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1864.  T. S. Cobbold, Entozoa, 264. The generally-received notion that the heads bud out stoloniferously, as it were, is altogether disproved.

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