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Answer for the clue "Fern spore clusters ", 4 letters:
sori

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Sori may refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) (plural of sorus English) Reproductive structures on fern fronds or in some lichens and fungi.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond [also: sori (pl)]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorus \So"rus\, n.; pl. Sori . [NL., fr. Gr. ? a heap.] (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns. In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of a host plant. In lichens, ...

Usage examples of sori.

If I could reach it, I could send a message to two of the brightest people I had ever known: Ling Chime and the young man, Sori Dali, who had briefed me on criminal psychology.

I had ducked behind the big chair while I had still been recognizing the problem Sori had unwittingly presented me.

They were facing her, speaking to someone, who from the height and breadth of his shoulders, Calli had to assume was male, although the length of the shiny black hair that fell over his shoulders would have branded him female in Soris.

On Soris II we knew that if we could get the water out of the mud inside this coffee-dam, we'd have cultivable ground.