different between frond vs sorus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

frond (plural fronds)

1. (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
2. Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):

     Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

Translations

Anagrams

• fnord

Middle English

Noun

frond

1. Alternative form of frend

English

Etymology

New Latin s?rus, from Ancient Greek ????? (s?rós, “heap”).

Noun

sorus (plural sori)

1. (mycology, lichenology) Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
2. (botany) A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond.

Synonyms

• fruit dot

Derived terms

• teleutosorus
• uredosorus

Related terms

• soral
• sorocarp
• sorophore

Translations

References

• sorus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sori on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• ORuss., Russo, Russo-, sours

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (s?rós, “heap”).

Noun

s?rus m (genitive s?r?); second declension

1. (mycology, lichenology) Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
2. (botany) A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? German: Sorus
• ? English: sorus
• ? Italian: soro
• ? Portuguese: soro
• ? Spanish: soro