Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing or forming stolons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or bearing stolons; proliferating, as an ascidian or a hydroid; stolonate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Producing
stolons ; putting forthsuckers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing stolons
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Examples
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With Mariscus congestus, Sporobolus virginicus, Scaevola plumieri, Ipomoea pes-caprae brasiliensis, and other trailing and stoloniferous plants on recently formed dunes.
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In depressions rhizomatous or stoloniferous genera such as Hemarthria, Ischaemum, and Paspalum are more common.
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As mentioned earlier, vetiver is reputed to be a barrier to grassy stoloniferous weeds.
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Of the legumes evaluated, only C. acuticolium has a stoloniferous growth habit, and its persistence and tolerance of grazing was attributed to this trait.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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The persistence of C. acutifolium was attributed to its stoloniferous growth habit.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Although spreading by stoloniferous roots like the common American hazel, these roots are shorter, and it does not extend rapidly enough to dominate the situation when growing in competition with the common hazel.
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In this particular lot the hybrid has taken on a habit of the mother parent, the common American hazel, growing long stoloniferous roots, an undesirable feature.
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This is an erect perennial grass with creeping, stoloniferous root-stocks, with aerial stems varying from 6 inches to 3 feet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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I have trimmed off stoloniferous roots experimentally from a number of hazel plants, for the purpose of throwing all of the strength into the original stocks, hoping, thereby, to prolong their lives.
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Meanwhile, the plant has been sending out long stoloniferous roots which have surrounded the original plant with a chaplet of progeny, each one of which follows the life course of the parent.
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