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Definition of Anticous
1. a. Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.
Definition of Anticous
1. Adjective. (botany) Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily. ¹
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Definition of Anticous
1. on the anterior side [adj]
Medical Definition of Anticous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticous
Literary usage of Anticous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Joseph Decaisne, Emmanuel Le Maout (1876)
"Diagram. if present, rarely fertile, opposite the anticous segment ; filaments
short, adnate to the base of the style ; anthers basifixed, erect, 2-celled, ..."
2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1902)
"Inter alia the leaves and bracts of B. salicifolia are different, the anticous
sepals are quite differently shaped, ..."
3. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1862)
"... plant varying with subglabrous or densely hirsute fronds, tertiary anticous
lowest veins reaching to the callose sinuses of the segments or to a little ..."
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