Sporange

The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant).

"Oy punk, you're a Sporange."

by FWasHere January 17, 2019

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(1) an exclamation or reaction of inarticulate despair, preferably with a good dose of being overfamiliar and bored with the situation thrown in. The verbal equivalent of scratching your fingernails down a blackboard. Best uttered by two or more people at once.

(2) (vb) to do something impressively badly, preferably when there is an audience to witness and berate you for how badly you did it.

(3) Scrangeometer (n) a dial that accurately measures exactly how scrange-worthy any action or situation might be.

(1) A: Yeah, I had a row with my girlfriend.

B: And it rained all day.

C: And they'd run out of Fudge Brownie Ice cream in Sainsbury's.

A, B and C: Scraaaange!

(2) Sorry, I've completely scranged this up. You'll have to bin it and start again.

(3) Eeek! I think that's about a 9.5 on the scrangeometer.

by scranged May 29, 2011

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Slorange

To go from a hard surface to a soft one. Can be used for any object and or surface.

"We were about to do it, but he went slorange on me!"
"I sloranged that asphalt up!"

by Zach Pringle October 23, 2007

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Sporange

In botany, the case or sac in plants in which the spores, which are equivalent to the seeds of flowering plants, are produced or carried. Also sporangium.

Thousands of spores are released from the ferns sporange.

by Science Rules December 7, 2010

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