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Definition of Introrse
1. a. Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.
Definition of Introrse
1. Adjective. (botany) Facing or turned inwards or towards an axis. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Said of anthers dehiscing toward the center of the flower. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Introrse
1. facing inward [adj]
Medical Definition of Introrse
1. Of anthers, dehiscing towards the centre of the flower. Compare: extrorse. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Introrse
Literary usage of Introrse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"Stamens inserted a little below the petals, equal in number to them, or 2—3—4-times
as many, rarely fewer : anthers introrse, bilocular, ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... ones twisted or valvate ; stamens two, attached to the tube, in- cluse; anthers
2-celled, introrse, bursting longitudinally; ovary destitute of a ..."
3. Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide to the Classification of Plants, with by Eliza Ann Youmans (1885)
"introrse and Extrorse Anthers. FIG. 232. Valvular. The projecting side of the
anther-cell is called its face, and the opposite side its back, ..."
4. Second Book of Botany: A Practical Guide to the Observation and Study of Plants by Eliza Ann Youmans (1874)
"introrse and Extrorse Anthers. When the valves of the anther are of equal size,
the dehiscence will occur laterally (Fig. 106); but, if one valve be wider ..."
5. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Parnassia is in similar case ; the anthers being clearly extrorse as to insertion
and more or less introrse as to dehiscence. 464. ..."
6. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"498) the anther is fixed near the middle, introrse, and versatile. 4G3. The direction
in which the anther may be said to face, outward or inward, ..."
7. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... the whole together sometimes revolute-coiled after flowering, withering away,
or the base thickened-persistent and enclosing the fruit Anthers introrse. ..."
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