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Definition: Sorus |
SorusNoun1. 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 dot ♦ Sori. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
home.ch net sorus | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 soro (serum). (various references) soro. (various references) sorus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sorus" (pronounced sô"rus) |
| 5 | s ô" r u s | Brontosaurus, stegosaurus, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus. |
| 4 | -ô" r u s | chorus, maquiladoras, Morris, porous. |
| 3 | -r u s | actress, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 72 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110010 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o r u s |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381848785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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