androphore
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editandrophore (plural androphores)
- (botany) A support or column on which stamens are raised[1]
- (zoology) The part which, in some Siphonophorae, bears the male gonophores.
Translations
editsupport or column on which stamens are raised
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References
edit- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “[Glossary […].] Androphore.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.
- “androphore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.