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Definition of Antheral
1. Adjective. Capable of fertilizing female organs.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Male
Derivative terms: Anther
Definition of Antheral
1. anther [adj] - See also: anther
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antheral
Literary usage of Antheral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"... the margins of the antheral leaf, or do they answer to the lines that separate
the two pollen-cavities on each half of the anther one from the other ? ..."
2. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"Do these chinks through which the pollen escapes correspond (as would at first
sight seem probable) to the margins of the antheral leaf, ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1799)
"This tree is named in compliance with Koenig, though the antheral'1 glands .bring it
nearer to the genus adenanthera. • XXXI. Some Account of the Cave in ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1858)
"... as with their contingent petals, between which enter the cutaneous lobes of
embryology, enclosing each a corresponding gland or antheral organ. ..."
5. The Origin of Thought and Speech by E. Moncalm (1905)
"... they pulsate in the air we breathe; they are like the winged antheral seeds
which are lifted up by the slightest breeze of autumn and carried afar; ..."
6. Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vernor and Hood (1807)
"... I have called this a Prosopis, though I am aware that the antheral glands give
it a claim to the genus ..."
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