Usually means: Cluster of spores on ferns.
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  1. sorus: Merriam-Webster
  2. sorus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sorus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sorus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sorus: Vocabulary.com
  6. sorus: Wordnik
  7. sorus: Wiktionary
  8. sorus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sorus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sorus: Dictionary.com
  11. Sorus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sorus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sorus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sorus: Rhymezone
  15. Sorus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sorus: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sorus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sorus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sorus: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sorus)

noun:  (mycology, lichenology) Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
noun:  (botany) A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond.

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