Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Facing inward; turned toward the axis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Turned or facing inward: an epithet used in describing the direction of bodies, to denote their being turned toward the axis to which they appertain. In botany it is applied to anthers when their valves are turned toward the style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Facing or turned
inwards or towards an axis. - adjective botany Said of
anthers dehiscing toward the center of the flower.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Alexander Braun notices the transformation of pistils into stamens in Chives (_Allium Scorodoprasum_), and in which three stamens appeared in the place of as many pistils, and had extrorse anthers, while the six normal anthers are introrse.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The anthers are at first introrse, but just before the bud opens they assume this position [sketch] and then turn right over and become extrorse.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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"Stamens six, hypogenous! anthers introrse! capsule cartilaginous, loculicidally three-valved, scurfy-leaved epiphytic!"
"Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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The anthers are at first introrse, but just before the bud opens they assume this position [sketch] and then turn right over and become extrorse.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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