Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany: Facing anteriorly, away from the axis of the plant.
  • Turned inward and facing the axis of the flower: applied to anthers, and equivalent to introrse. Also antical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

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  • adjective botany Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

Etymologies

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Latin anticus in front, foremost, from ante before.

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