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English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Noun
sorosis (plural soroses)
- (botany) 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.
2017, Maria Gloria Lobo, Robert E. Paull, Handbook of Pineapple Technology:The fruit of pineapple is a sorosis developing from numerous sessile flowers that are connote with their subtending bracts and with one another.
Etymology 2
According to Webster Suppl. 1879, an arbitrary use of the botanical term, adopted as the name of the first club of the kind, founded in 1868.[1] It follows that it shares the same etymology, referring to aggregation, rather than the etymology of sorority, which referred to sisterhood.
Noun
sorosis (plural soroses)
- (US historical) A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.
1869, Putnam's Magazine, volume 3, page 640: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 […]
1890, John Van Valkenburg, Jewels of Pythian Knighthood: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 […]
References
- ^ Murray, J.A.H. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (2 vols). Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1971. ISBN: 978-0198611172