sorosisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sorosis (複数形 soroses)

1. (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.

語源 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.

名詞

sorosis (複数形 soroses)

1. (米国用法 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 […]

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