{"id":7366,"date":"2016-12-25T17:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2016-12-25T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T23:42:16","slug":"word-of-the-day-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/25\/word-of-the-day-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>sorus<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <b>sorus<\/b> (pl. <i>sori<\/i>) is a cluster of <a title=\"Sporangium\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sporangium\">sporangia<\/a> (structures producing and containing <a title=\"Spore\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spore\">spores<\/a>) in <a title=\"Fern\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fern\">ferns<\/a> and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Fungi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fungi\">fungi<\/a>. This <a title=\"New Latin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Latin\">New Latin<\/a> word is from <a title=\"Ancient Greek\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greek\">Ancient Greek<\/a> <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:\u03c3\u03c9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CF%83%CF%89%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82\">\u03c3\u03c9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2<\/a> (<i>s\u014dr\u00f3s<\/i> \u2018stack, pile, heap\u2019). <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sorus\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231030-500-explosive-life-of-ferns-leaves-under-inspection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noted<\/a> in the <em><strong>Aperture<\/strong><\/em> column of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (10 December 2016):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THESE glowing orbs harbour the progeny of a strange life form. Their goal? To propel that progeny as far away as possible so it can conquer new habitats. An explosive launch will eventually help them disperse their contents.<\/p>\n<p>They are the sporangia of fern plants, found on the underside of their leaves, or fronds. These sporangia grow in clusters called sori and are seen here under a fluorescence microscope, which uses a higher-intensity light source than conventional microscopes and labels the specimens with a fluorescent substance. This results in beautiful images that enhance the 3D features of small specimens: the sporangia don\u2019t normally glow like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link for the pics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sorus: A sorus (pl. sori) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores) in ferns and fungi. This New Latin word is from Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03c9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2 (s\u014dr\u00f3s \u2018stack, pile, heap\u2019). [Wikipedia] Noted in the Aperture column of NewScientist (10 December 2016): THESE glowing orbs harbour the progeny of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/25\/word-of-the-day-62\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7367,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions\/7367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}