a. Bot. [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.
