androphore

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From andro- +‎ -phore.

Noun[edit]

androphore (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[edit]

support or column on which stamens are raised

Portuguese: andróforo m

References[edit]

^ 1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology

androphore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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