Meaning of sorosis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.
   US, historical

Examples

“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[…]”

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