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Cluster of plant spores
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sorus
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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, ...
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A sorus (pl. sori ) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores ) in ferns and fungi . This New Latin word is from Ancient Greek σωρός ( sōrós ‘stack, pile, heap’). In fungi and lichens , the sorus is surrounded by an external ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mycology lichenology English) Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungus, that produces spores. 2 (context botany English) A cluster of sporangium on the edge or underside of a fern frond.
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)]
Usage examples of sorus.
Nevertheless it was better than staying with Nick: supporting his crimes, enabling his betrayals, while he scorned her for the simple reason that she couldn't heal the wounds Sorus Chatelaine had cut into him.
A tea derived from our Common Maidenhair, a simple little fern, common on old walls, with long, simply pinnate fronds, their sori arranged on the back in oblique lines, has also demulcent effect.
How much Nick should say de pended on what Sorus had already told Retledge.
The sori are on the upper half of the frond, at the back of the pinnules, in round masses towards the base of the segments, covered with a conspicuous, kidney-shaped indusium.