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Sorus   Listen
noun
Sorus  n.  (pl. sori)  
1.
(Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.
2.
(a)
In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of a host plant.
(b)
In lichens, a heap of soredia on the thallus.





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