Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sorosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables: soro-sis
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

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

A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.

American usage

Example Sentences

"The fruit of pineapple is a sorosis developing from numerous sessile flowers that are connote with their subtending bracts and with one another."
"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 […]"
"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[…]"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: σωρός

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

soroses (plural)

Questions

What does sorosis mean?: 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.
Where does sorosis come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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