stolidness (stolidnes)

Stolidity. stolo (stoʻlo), n.; pl. stolones (stō-lōnēz). [L.: see stolon.] In zoöl., a stolon. - Stolo prolifer, the proliferating stolon of some animals, as certain ascidians; a germ-stock. See stolon, 2 (e). stolon (stoʻlon), n. [NL., Carex vulgar is, var. stolon if era , showing the stolons. A very slender naked stolon with a bud at the end constitutes a runner, as of the strawberry. See also cut under Solidago. (b) In mo es, a shoot running along or under the ground, and eventually rising into the air and producing fully leafed shoots. Goebel.-2. In zoöl., some proliferated part or structure, likened to the stolon of a plant, connecting different parts or persons of a compound or complex organism, and usually giving rise to new zooids by the proce of budding. See cuts under Campanular i a and Willsia. (a) A proce of protoplasm between the different compartments of a multilocular foraminifer. (b) The procumbent, adherent, or creeping basal section of the stock of some social infusorians. (c) One of the prolongations of the cœnosarc of some actinozoans. (d) The second stage of the embryo of some hydrozoans. (e) The germ-stock or prolongation of the tunic of some compound ascidians, as a salp; a stolo prolifer. See cuts under Salpa and cyatho zooid. IMG:content-2174.jpg:[blocks in formation]