释义 |
anticous, a. Bot.|ænˈtaɪkəs| [f. L. antīc-us front (f. ante before) + -ous.] Fronting the axis of the whorl to which it belongs, as anthers whose line of dehiscence looks towards the pistils.
1870Hooker Stud. Flora 273 Melampyrum..Disk an hypogynous anticous gland. 1880Gray Bot. Text-bk. vi. §6. 253 An anther is..Introrse..or Anticous, when it faces toward the axis of the flower. |