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English
Etymology
From andro- + -phore.
Noun
androphore (plural androphores)
- (botany) A support or column on which stamens are raised
- (zoology) The part which, in some Siphonophorae, bears the male gonophores.
Translations
support or column on which stamens are raised
References
- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Androphore.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.