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‖ sorosis|səˈrəʊsɪs|
[mod.L., f. Gr. σωρός a heap.]
1. Bot. (See quot. 1831.)
1831Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 180 Sorosis,..a spike or raceme converted into a fleshy fruit by the cohesion in a single mass of the ovaria and floral envelopes. 1845Encycl. Metrop. VI. 122*/1 The fruit [sc. mulberry], called a sorosis by botanists, has a peculiar aromatic flavour. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §557 Other instances of a sorosis are the Bread-fruit and Jack-fruit.
2. U.S. A women's society or club.
An arbitrary use of the botanical term, adopted as the name of the first club of the kind, founded in 1868.
1869Geo. Eliot Jrnl. 16 Feb. in Lett. (1956) V. 14 The Ladies of the ‘Sorosis’ at New York..proposed to make me an honorary member of their society—I declined. 1879in Webster Suppl. 1902Out West May 557 The founding of the first woman's club, Sorosis of New York, was almost simultaneous with the union of the Atlantic and Pacific by the completion of the first transcontinental railway in 1869. 1942C. Morley Thorofare xxiii. 98 I've promised to read a paper on my trip abroad to our literary sorosis. |