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soroses

soroses is the plural of sorosis.

Meaning of sorosis

Noun (1)

sorosis (plural soroses)

  1. Any multiple fruit, usually fleshy, that is derived from the multiple ovaries in an infructescence. Such a structure typically includes remnants of floral tissues such as the perianth. Examples include the mulberry and pineapple.
    • The fruit of pineapple is a sorosis developing from numerous sessile flowers that are connote with their subtending bracts and with one another.2017, Maria Gloria Lobo, Robert E. Paull, Handbook of Pineapple Technology

Noun (2)

sorosis (plural soroses)

  1. (US, historical) A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.
    • Yet these women were not a clique, nor a sect, nor a Sorosis, but all our wives, and sisters, and daughters, and lovers. They were just the common lot […]1869, Putnam's Magazine, volume 3, page 640

Proper noun capitalized: Soroses

Soroses

  1. (plural) plural of Soros

Questions about soroses

What is soroses the plural of?
Soroses is the plural of sorosis.
What part of speech is soroses?
Soroses is a proper noun.

Words near soroses in the dictionary

  1. sororizes
  2. sororizing
  3. sorors
  4. soros
  5. sorose
  6. soroses
  7. Sorosian
  8. sorosilicate
  9. sorosilicates
  10. sorosis
  11. sorosite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soroses (page history and authors); Soroses (page history and authors); sorosis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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