stoloniferousadj.
/ˌstəʊləˈnɪf(ə)rəs/, /ˌstɒləˈnɪf(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˌstoʊləˈnɪf(ə)rəs/ Botany and Zoology.
Producing stolons.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > of or having stolons
stoloniferous1777
stolonial1911
the world > animals > invertebrates > colony or compound organism > [adjective] > relating to substance forming > producing connecting processes
stoloniferous1865
1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 6 Stoloniferous, having scions, suckers or barren shoots, as in Creeping Crowfoot and Meadow Bugle.
1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 65 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Stoloniferous, or shoot-bearing Chinese saxifrage.
1840 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. (ed. 2) 161 Even the delicate stoloniferous rose is constantly changing its location in this way.
1865 Intellectual Observer No. 40. 301 Traversed at D by a stoloniferous passage.
1872 Brady in Monthly Microsc. Jrnl. July 33 [In the Foraminifera] It is not..unusual to find..two segments connected by a stoloniferous tube.
1899 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 10 113 So strong is the habit of stoloniferous growth.
Derivatives
stoloˈniferously adv.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > colony or compound organism > [adverb] > in manner that produces stolons
stoloniferously1864
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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adj.1777