Definition of Sorosis

1. n. A woman's club; an association of women.

2. n. A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

Definition of Sorosis

1. Noun. (botany) Any multiple fleshy fruit that is derived from the ovaries of multiple flowers ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sorosis

1. a women's club or society [n -ROSES or -ROSISES]

Medical Definition of Sorosis

1. A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc, as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple. (04 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorosis

sororicide
sororicides
sororise
sororised
sororises
sororities
sorority
sororize
sororized
sororizes
sororizing
sorors
soroses
sorosilicate
sorosilicates
sorosis (current term)
sorosises
sorosite
sorostitute
sorostitutes
sorption
sorption detoxification
sorptions
sorptive
sorr
sorra
sorrance
sorrances
sorras
sorrel

Literary usage of Sorosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the International Council of Women by International Council of Women (1888)
"While we claim that sorosis, the women's club of New York, is in a sense the ... There were meetings of women many years before sorosis was dreamed of. ..."

2. Municipal and Institutional Libraries of Indiana: History, Conditon and by William Elmer Henry, Indiana Louisiana purchase exposition commission (1904)
"sorosis LIBRARY. Angola, the county seat of Steuben county, Indiana, with a population of about 2200, is a flourishing, up-to-date town, in most every ..."

3. The History of the General Federation of Women's Clubs for the First Twenty by Mary I. Wood (1912)
"CROLY: sorosis AND THE FIRST ORGANIZATION Among the pioneer women's clubs was the sorosis of New York City. This club had been organized in 1868 by Mrs. ..."

4. Bulletin of the International Medico-Legal Congress held June 4, 5, 6, and 7 by International medico-legal congress, Medico-Legal Society of New York (1891)
"He brought me here this evening by pronouncing the magic word "sorosis." I am charged to bring here the good will and blessings of sorosis. ..."

5. Municipal and Institutional Libraries of Indiana: History, Condition and by William Elmer Henry (1904)
"sorosis LIBRARY. Angola, the county seat of Steuben county, Indiana, ... August 16, 1895, "The sorosis Circle," one of the leading literary societies of the ..."

6. Municipal and Institutional Libraries of Indiana: History, Condition and by William Elmer Henry (1904)
"sorosis LIBRARY. Angola, the county seat of Steuben county, Indiana, with a population of about 2200, is a flourishing, up-to-date town, in most every ..."

7. The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America by Jane Cunningham Croly, General Federation of Women's Clubs (1898)
"sorosis THE beginnings of any movement are not represented by the facts which appear as "history," but they furnish a starting point, the vital elements of ..."

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