noun
- a fleshy multiple fruit formed from a spike of flowers, such as a pineapple or mulberry
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The pineapple is a classic example of a sorosis.
- Mulberries develop as a sorosis from many small flowers.
- The botanist explained how a sorosis differs from a simple fruit.
- Each segment of the sorosis represents an individual flower.
- Students learned to identify various types of sorosis in their botany class.