sorus
Americannoun
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sori
plural
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Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
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Mycology. a soruslike spore mass of certain fungi and lichens.
noun
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a cluster of sporangia on the undersurface of certain fern leaves
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any of various similar spore-producing structures in some lichens and fungi
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sori
plural
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A cluster of sporangia borne on the underside of a fern frond. A sorus is sometimes covered by an indusium.
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Also called fruitdot
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A reproductive structure consisting of masses of spores, characteristic of certain fungi such as rusts and smuts.
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Etymology
Origin of sorus
1825–35; < New Latin < Greek sōrós heap
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But Brock also thought she saw something else in the sorus.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2011
Indusium star-shaped, of a few irregular segments fixed beneath the sorus, often obscure.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Synangium, si-nan′ji-um, n. an arterial trunk: the boat-shaped sorus of certain ferns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Indusium cup-shaped, fixed beneath the sorus, supported by the tooth of a leaf; sporangia borne in an elevated, globular receptacle open at the top.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Indusium convex, fixed by a broad base partly under the sorus, commonly reflexed as the sporangia ripen.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The photo shows small bumps called sori on the underside of a fern frond.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
They are distinguished by large leaves called fronds and small sporangia-containing structures called sori, which are found on the underside of the fronds.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Inside the sori, spores are produced by meiosis and released into the air.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The pustules, or sori, break through the cuticle in a similar manner, and here also no true peridium is present.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In Botrýchium the sterile segment is more or less incised, the veins free, and the sori in a panicle or compound or rarely simple spike.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
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