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To displace by anteversion.

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

Same as Antihelix.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

A floral ornament. See Palmette.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

Alternately. [Obs.] Bacon.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.

Producing anthers, as plants.

Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped.

Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

Resembling an anther.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

Same as Anthokyan.