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Syngenesian :: Syngenesia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.

Oophyte :: Oophyte (n.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or Oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion..

Connective :: Connective (n.) That part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells..

Apetalous :: Apetalous (a.) Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther]..

Valvate :: Valvate (a.) Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers..

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

Anther :: Anther (n.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary..

Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..

Innate :: Innate (a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther..

Antheridia :: Antheridia (pl. ) of Antheridiu.

Biantheriferous :: Biantheriferous (a.) Having two anthers.

Scabious :: Scabious (a.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected..

Synanthesis :: Synantherous (a.) Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers..

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Antheriferous :: Antheriferous (a.) Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower..

Thrum-eyed :: Thrum-eyed (a.) Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed..

Valve :: Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry..

Panther :: Panther (n.) In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar..

Male :: Male (v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them..

Monogamic :: Monogamic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers.

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