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 theflower , as in theintrorse anthers of thewater lily .
Etymologies
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Latin anticus in front, foremost, from ante before.
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