The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sori \So"ri\, n.,
pl. of Sorus.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sorus \So"rus\, n.; pl. Sori. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a heap.]
1. (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of
sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.
[1913 Webster]
2.
(a) In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting
through the epidermis of a host plant.
(b) In lichens, a heap of soredia on the thallus.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]