Ăn'ther, n.

noun

n. [Lat. anthera, a medicine composed of flowers; Gr. ἀνθηρός, -ά, flowery, from ἀνθεῖν, to bloom, ἄνθος, flower.] (Bot.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.

A botanical diagram of a flower’s ovary, style, stigma, filaments, and anthers. — Anther. a, ovary; b, style; c, stigma; d d, filaments; e e, anthers.