Word Meanings - ANTHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) flowers, fr. Gr.

Related words: (words related to ANTHER)

• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• POLLENIN
  A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
• POLLEN
  The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EMITTENT
  Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.
• MATURESCENT
  Approaching maturity.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FERTILIZATION
  The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization
• MATURER
  One who brings to maturity.
• FERTILIZE
  1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize
• STAMENED
  Furnished with stamens.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• POLLENIFEROUS
  Producing pollen; polliniferous.
• POLLENIZE
  To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• IMPREGNATION
  The fusion of a female germ cell with a male germ cell to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation. Note: In the broadest biological sense, impregnation, or sexual generation,
• MATURE
  1. Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how
• MATURELY
  1. In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely. 2. With caution; deliberately. Dryden. 3. Early; soon. Bentley.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• DECENNOVAL; DECENNOVARY
  Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. Holder.
• ACCLIMATURE
  The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. Caldwell.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• TESTAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.
• DISARMATURE
  The act of divesting of armature.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• PSEUDOVARY
  The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.
• IMMATURED
  Immature.