Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany: Producing anthers. Supporting anthers, as the filaments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing anthers, as plants.
- adjective Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.
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- adjective botany Producing
anthers , as plants. - adjective botany Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.
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Examples
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A new and curious plant looking like _Kureel_ was found, male flowers with large semi-antheriferous bearing disc.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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While, in most cases, the supernumerary stamens can, by reason of their relative position, their complete or partial antheriferous nature, be safely referred to one or other of the six stamens, making up a typical orchid flower, there are other specimens in which the additional stamens are altogether adventitious, and do not admit of reference to the homologue.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Here, therefore, is a symmetrical and complete, regular, but dimerous orchideous flower, the first verticil of stamens not antheriferous, the second antheriferous, the carpels alternate with these; and here we have clear (and perhaps the first direct) demonstration that the orchideous type of flower has two stamineal verticils, as Brown always insisted. "
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Ricinus communis_ as having been in one instance antheriferous. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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B. Clarke mentions an instance in _Mathiola incana_ in which the carpels were disunited, and antheriferous at the margin. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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