androphore

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  1. In botany, a stamineal column, usually formed by a union of the filaments, as in the Malvaceæ and in many genera of Leguminosæ.
  2. In zoology, the branch of a gonoblastidium of a hydrozoan which bears male gonophores; a generative bud or medusiform zooid in which the male elements only are developed, as distinguished from a gynophore or female gonophore. See gynophore, and cut under gonoblastidium.
  3. A stalk supporting an andrœcium.

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  1. from Greek ἀνήρ (ἀνδρ-), a man, a male, in modern botany a stamen, + -φόρος, from φέρειν = English bear.
 

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