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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek
Noun
anthophore (plural anthophores)
- (botany) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the pink family.
Translations
the stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla
References
- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Anthophore.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.