Crossword-Solution: ANTHESIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anthesis | n. | The period or state of full expansion in a flower. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANTHESIS | anagram | SHANTIES, STHENIAS |
We have 5 clues for the answer “ANTHESIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Flower development | 1 answer |
| Flowering process | 1 answer |
| time when a flower becomes sexually functional | 1 answer |
| Full bloom | 2 answers |
| Opener | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANTHESIS (5)
The function of the lodicules seems to be to separate the glume and its palea so as to enable the stamens to come out and hang freely at the time of anthesis.
Emasculation and bagging was done at the beginning of anthesis, that is, when the first unisexual male catkins began to shed pollen.
The results showed that five days after the commencement of anthesis a high proportion of the female flowers is receptive.
The Japanese and hybrid trees have a definite peak of the period of receptivity between 9 and 17 days after anthesis begins; thereafter, receptivity drops off sharply.
During anthesis, the ovules have to be fertilized by the pollen; or at least some pollen has to reach the stigma, or in gymnospermy the ovule itself, and to set up the peculiar growth upon its moist and permeable tissue, which has for result the production of an embryo in the ovules.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1979–1994).