Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Anther

Anther ({not transcribed}) , noun

[French anthère, Latin anthera a medicine composed of flowers, from Greek {not transcribed} flowery, from 'anqei^n to bloom, 'a`nqos flower.]

(Botany) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.