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Sorus

Definition: Sorus

Sorus

Noun

1. A spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi.

2. Cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Sorus

English words defined with "sorus": Fruit dotSori. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sorus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

home.ch net sorus

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sorus

Language Translations for "sorus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

sporenhoopje. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sorus, itiöpesäkeryhmä. (various references)

   

French

  

sore. (various references)

   

German

  

Sorus. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωρός (pile, stack). (various references)

   

Italian

  

soro. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orussay

   

Portuguese

  

soro (serum). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

soro. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sorus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Sorus"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sorus" (pronounced sô"rus)
5s ô" r u sBrontosaurus, stegosaurus, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus.
4-ô" r u schorus, maquiladoras, Morris, porous.
3-r u sactress, ambassadress, ambidextrous, arris, buttress, Cirrus, citrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, dextrous, disastrous, embarrass, estrous, estrus, ferrous, fibrous, fortress, hantavirus, headmistress, heiress, hubris, huntress, hydrous, idolatrous, Iris, ludicrous, lustrous, Madras, mattress, mistress, monstrous, nitrous, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, puris, retrovirus, seamstress, temptress, terrace, virus, waitress, walrus, wondrous.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sorus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sours.

Words within the letters "o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: ours, sour, sous.

-2 letters: ors, our, sos, sou.

-3 letters: or, os, so, us.

 Words containing the letters "o-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: rouses, rousts, scours, serous, stours, sudors, tussor.

 

+2 letters: arouses, assuror, bourses, courses, cursors, dousers, estrous, grouses, housers, mousers, oestrus, ossuary, ousters, poseurs, rousers, rugosas, sapours, sarcous, savours, serious, shrouds, souaris, soucars, sources, sourest, sourish, soursop, souters, sprouts, stoures, strouds, stupors, suasory, suborns, succors, sucrose, suitors, tsouris, tussore, tussors, uncross, upsoars.

 

+3 letters: anserous, arousals, arousers, arsenous, arsonous, assurors, ausforms, bescours, carouses, choruses, chousers, closures, cornuses, corpuses, coursers, crocuses, crosscut, crusados, crustose, curassow, cussword, desirous, dourness, espouser, focusers, griseous, grousers, hotspurs, jousters, kurtoses, kurtosis, lustrous, mosasaur, neuroses, neurosis, nonusers, nostrums, obscures, oestrous, oestrums, onrushes, outcross, outdress, outgross, outpress, outserts, outsoars, oversuds, oversups, overuses, postures, purposes, pushrods, questors, rehouses, repousse, resinous, resounds, robustas, rosebuds, rosebush, roseslug, rosinous, rostrums, rousseau, rousters, saguaros, sahuaros, santours, saporous, sautoirs, saviours, savorous, scabrous, scarious, sclerous, scourers, scourges, scouters, scrotums, scrouges, shouters, soilures, sojourns, sombrous, sonorous, sorghums, sounders, sourness, sourpuss, soursops, southers, spermous, sporules, spouters, spurious, squalors, stratous, strumose, strumous, suberose, suberous, subsolar, succours, sucroses, sundrops, sunroofs, sunrooms, supports, supposer, supremos, surcoats, surgeons, surtouts, tonsures, tourisms, tourists, tressour, trousers, trustors, tussores, tutoress, unhorses, uprouses, usurious, voussoir.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sorus


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 72 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    .-.    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01110010 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#114 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0072 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5381848785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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