from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The pollen-bearing part of a stamen.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun In botany, the essential polliniferous part of a stamen, generally raised upon the extremity of a filament.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Bot.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
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noun botany The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin anthēra, pollen, from Latin, a medicine extracted from flowers, from Greek, from feminine of anthēros, flowery, from anthos, flower.]
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From French anthère, from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρός (antheros, "flowery, blooming"), from ἄνθος (ánthos, "flower").
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On its under surface delicate root hairs grow to give it stability and nutriment; also two sorts of reproductive organs known as antherídia and archegònia, the male and female growths analogous to the stamens and pistils in flowers.
The anther is a little box like the ovary, and the pollen grain grows from the inside of it, being at first a part of it and nourished by the same sap.
Surrounding the pistil are six stamens, each having a slender stem or filament and terminating in a little box; this box is called the anther and is filled with flower-dust or pollen.
The two that are left have a very strange shape, for the stalk or filament of the stamen is very short, while the anther, which is in most flowers two little bags stuck together, has here grown out into a long thread, with a little dust-bag at one end only.
The stamen is composed of a stem, or filament, at the summit of which are placed two little sacs, called the anther, containing a fine, microscopic dust, the pollen, which contains the male reproductive element of the flower.
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