Crossword-Solution: SORUS 5 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Sorus n. One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on
the back of the fronds of ferns.

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SORUS anagram ROUSS, RUSSO, SOURS

We have 12 clues for the answer “SORUS”

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Cluster of plant spores 1 answer
Cluster on a fern 1 answer
Fern cluster 1 answer
Fern-frond formation 1 answer
Fungal spore mass 1 answer
Spore cluster 1 answer
Spore cluster of a fern 1 answer
dots fruit 1 answer
mass of spores 2 answers
FRUIT dot on fern 2 answers
Fruit dots 2 answers
Fern part 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sorus or Sour was a hermit, born about the year 500; he set off with two companions, Amandus and Cyprian, to find a desert place where he might take up his abode.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Sabine Baring-Gould 2005
This occasionally happens from the elongation of the normally placed sorus, which thus extends to the margin, and returns on the upper side, when the sori chance to be placed opposite to the marginal crenatures.
Vegetable Teratology Maxwell T. Masters 2007
Commonly the spore-cases occupy only detached spots or lines, each of which is called a SORUS, or in English merely a Fruit-dot.
The Elements of Botany Asa Gray 2010
Sori linear, confluent in pairs, each pair appearing like a single sorus with a double indusium opening down the middle.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Asa Gray 2012
Indusium convex, fixed by a broad base partly under the sorus, commonly reflexed as the sporangia ripen.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Asa Gray 2012
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1969–1989).