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Definition of Anther
1. Noun. The part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk.
Definition of Anther
1. n. That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
Definition of Anther
1. Noun. (botany) The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anther
1. the pollen-bearing part of a stamen [n -S] : ANTHERAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Anther
1. The pollen-producing producing part of a flower. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anther
Literary usage of Anther
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The walk of the cells are frequently absorbed, so that when the anther attains
... The anther is developed before the filament, and is always sessile in the ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"anther-bearing stamens 4. Posterior (upper) pair of stamens longer than the anterior.
anther-sacs parallel or nearly so. Tall erect herbs; posterior stamens ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"The Filament is a kind of stalk to the anther, commonly slender or thread-like:
it is to the anther nearly what the petiole is to the blade of a leaf. ..."
4. Elementary Studies in Botany by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"men is looked upon by botanists as a sort of leaf, the filament answering to the
petiole, and the anther to the blade The connective corresponds to the ..."
5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"anther-sacs transversely 2-valved. 16. GALEOPSIS. Connective of the anthers very
long, articulated to the filaments, bearing a perfect anther at the ..."
6. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"460, 461), anther and stigma are consolidated into one mass, ... The anther, the
essential organ of the stamen, containing the pollen, surmounts the ..."
7. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"Transverse section of ovary. 10. Branch bearing fruits. 11. Transverse section
of fruit, four-celled. 12. Ditto, three-celled—one-seeded by abortion. anther ..."
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