Crossword clues for sorosis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorosis \So*ro"sis\, n. [NL. See Sororize.] A woman's club; an association of women. [U. S.]
Sorosis \So*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a heap.] (Bot.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"consolidated fleshy multiple fruit" (such as a pineapple), 1831, from Modern Latin, from Greek soros "a heap."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) Any multiple fleshy fruit that is derived from the ovary of multiple flowers 2 (context dated English) A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.
Wikipedia
Sorosis was the first professional women's club in the United States. The club was organized in New York City with 12 members in March 1868, by Jane Cunningham Croly. Among its founding members were Josephine Pollard, a children's author, and Fanny Fern Parton, a popular columnist who had been angered at newspaper women being excluded from the all-male New York Press Club when it had an honorary dinner for the author Charles Dickens the month before. Sorosis was incorporated in January 1869. Alice Cary was the first president. Within one year, Sorosis had 83 members.
Sorosis meant "aggregation". Its object was to further the educational and social activities of women, and to bring together for mutual helpfulness, representative women in art, literature, science, and kindred pursuits.
Usage examples of "sorosis".
A pineapple plant produces slowly, only one fruit at the end of two years—technically it is a sorosis or bundle of fruits, each of the composite squares being the result of a separate flower—but when the fruit has matured, the plant offers four separate ways of propagating new plants: the crown of the pineapple fruit can be carefully torn off and planted.