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Sorus

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so=rus

CIDE DICTIONARY

Sorusn. [NL., fr. Gr. a heap.].
  •  One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.  [1913 Webster]
  •  In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of a host plant.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sorus, n. (pl. sori) Bot. a heap or cluster, esp. of spore-cases on the under-surface of a fern-leaf, or in a fungus or lichen.

Etymology
mod.L f. Gk soros heap

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