Usage examples (27)

• It is from the same root as the word anther, a part of the flower petal.
• Cruger believed the viscid matter reaching the anther was a necessary condition for the germination of the pollen-grains.
• In some Petunias the filaments are unchanged, but in place of the anther is a small lamina, representing precisely the blade of an ordinary leaf.
• The column is here quite elongated, forked at the tip, the space between the forks occupied by the anther, which is hinged to the upper division.