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Example sentences for "sorus"

Lexicographically close words:
sortir; sortis; sortit; sorto; sorts; sorwe; sorweful; sorwes; sory; sot
  1. In this case the sorus is always near to the margin of the leaf, and the indusium or covering is cup-shaped.

  2. The indusium arises from a vein to which the sorus is attached.

  3. The sorus is circular and is covered with an indusium which is notched or kidney-shaped.

  4. The sorus is in the form of a little rounded heap.

  5. SORUS A cluster of sporangia; a fruit dot.

  6. Illustration] Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive.

  7. His observations bear on the development of the sorus and sporangium, but he dismissed the microsporangia as abortive or imperfectly developed structures.

  8. The sorus was regarded as a sort of compound fruit, the sporangium as a carpel, the annulus as its midrib, and the spores as the seeds.

  9. Each sorus contains many minute bodies known as spores, not unlike very miniature seeds in general appearance, but quite unlike them in behavior and mode of life.

  10. Indusium of a few broad segments, at first covering the sorus completely.

  11. Sori linear, confluent in pairs, each pair appearing like a single sorus with a double indusium opening down the middle.

  12. The proper (often shield-shaped) covering of the sorus or fruit-dot in Ferns.

  13. The sori are usually very full of sporangia, and, when ripe, nearly cover the back of the frond: even the narrow acumination bears a sorus at each undulation of the margin.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.