sorosis
sorosis noun: 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.
Noun (1)
sorosis (plural soroses)
- 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)
- 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
- They gathered up all the privacies of the city and poured them into his ear, and his family became a sorosis, or female debating society of seven hundred, discussing, day after day, all the difficulties between husbands and wives[…]1890, John Van Valkenburg, Jewels of Pythian Knighthood
sorosis meaning in Tamil
sorosis in Tamil
- கும்பி
Forms of sorosis
| plural | soroses |
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Origin of sorosis
From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
According to Webster Suppl. 1879, an arbitrary use of the botanical term, adopted as the name of the first club of the kind, founded in 1868. It follows that it shares the same etymology, referring to aggregation, rather than the etymology of sorority, which referred to sisterhood.
Questions about sorosis
- What does sorosis mean?
- Sorosis means 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.
- What is sorosis in Tamil?
- Sorosis in Tamil is கும்பி. See Sorosis meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sorosis?
- Sorosis is a noun.
- What is the plural of sorosis?
- The plural of sorosis is soroses.
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