| n. | 1. | (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns. |
| 2. | In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of a host plant. |
| Noun | 1. | sorus - a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi |
| 2. | sorus - cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond |
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