ratoon vs stolon

ratoon

noun
  • A shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane. 

  • A rattan cane. 

verb
  • To sprout ratoons. 

  • To cut a plant, especially sugar cane, so that it will produce ratoons. 

stolon

noun
  • A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner. 

  • A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores. 

  • A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates. 

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