Crossword clues for anther
anther
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anther \An"ther\, n. [F. anth[`e]re, L. anthera a medicine composed of flowers, fr. Gr. ? flowery, fr. 'anqei^n to bloom, 'a`nqos flower.] (Bot.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "medical extract of flowers," from French anthère, from Modern Latin anthera "a medicine extracted from a flower," from Greek anthera, fem. of antheros "flowery, blooming," from anthos "flower," from PIE root *andh- "to bloom" (cognates: Sanskrit andhas "herb," Armenian and "field," Middle Irish ainder "young girl," Welsh anner "young cow"). Main modern sense attested by 1791.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.
WordNet
n. the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk
Usage examples of "anther".
With the baby nestled in his palm, Anther rocked his hand back and forth.
Katya gave Anther a small plate with one waffle, a tablespoon of syrup drizzled over the top.
If I wrapped my anther tightly enough so not even the odor escaped, the women left me alone.
There I was, with my pants unfastened and my anther in my hand, shaking it over a flower in a big pot.
I strip down and I grab my anther and I shake it and I shake it and I.
It signified a colossal ego, a man who might easily have given himself an anther and pollinated amaryllises and neighbor ladies, a man who judged the rightness of his behavior only by his own standards, if he bothered to so judge at all.
Jack abandoned his anther, climbed to his feet, and gestured expansively with both arms.
Some plants, like humans, kept their sexes separate, the male anther in one flower, even in the flowers of one plant, and the female pistil, style, and ovary in a second flower or plant.
He was rubbing his depleted anther and chuckling, perhaps at the thought of what his gengineered viruses were doing to the bodies on the floor, perhaps at the thought of how the modified honeysuckle plant that kept them from protesting their transformation might be received in the outer world, if only he would release it, or if it would escape.
Halm of Ors, who tended Anther, a high-strung, green dragon from Aubinas.
Two were still marching but not able to fight, although Anther might be able to return shortly.
Ulrich, in turn, recovered his senses, but as he felt faint with terror, he went and got a bottle of brandy out of the sideboard, and he drank off several glasses, one after anther, at a gulp.
This measure had a anther reaching effect than merely giving the Union armies an increased supply of men.
Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather!
Sprengel has shown, and as I can confirm, either the anthers burst before the stigma is ready for fertilisation, or the stigma is ready before the pollen of that flower is ready, so that these plants have in fact separated sexes, and must habitually be crossed.