sorosis
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Is sorosis a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of sorosis?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany) 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.Examples: "The fruit of pineapple is a sorosis developing from numerous sessile flowers that are connote with their subtending bracts and with one another."
noun (English)
1. (US historical) A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.Examples: "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[…]"UShistorical
Definition source: Wiktionary