"Well, I sat up for three weeks running, with one of them girls -- the red-haired one, till she died off of sorosis of the liver --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference

A pineapple plant produces slowly, only one fruit at the end of two years'technically it is a sorosis or bundle of fruits, each of the composite squares being the result of a separate flower-but when the fruit has matured, the plant offers four separate ways of propagating new plants: the crown of the pineapple fruit can be carefully torn off and planted; slips that have started growing from the base "of the fruit can be lifted off and planted; suckers that have begun to spring out from the base of the plant can be used in the same way; or the stump itself can be cut up into chunks and planted like potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]