anticous, a. Bot.
(ænˈtaɪkəs)
[f. L. antīc-us front (f. ante before) + -ous.]
Fronting the axis of the whorl to which it belongs, as anthers whose line of dehiscence looks towards the pistils.
| 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 273 Melampyrum..Disk an hypogynous anticous gland. 1880 Gray Bot. Text-bk. vi. §6. 253 An anther is..Introrse..or Anticous, when it faces toward the axis of the flower. |