Converse of object

• have: Spring squill has blue anthers, these are the parts on the ends of the stamens which carry the pollen grains.

• hold: I have only just noticed that the filaments, holding the anthers, are covered in fine brown hairs.

• cover: The moment the flower opens, on the plant chosen to be female, snip off the pollen covered anthers.

• show: The image on the left shows three yellow anthers at the tips of perianth segments.

• contrast: The lilac blue flowers are a good shape, large and with wonderful contrasting anthers of butter yellow.

Adjective modifier

• yellow: One such yellow anther can be seen in the bottom right corner of the image below.

• dark: Under the microscope, dark-ground illumination reveals the details of one of the darker anthers and its filament.

• red: The color is shaded, paler pink at the circumference becoming deeper magenta toward the center, with dark veins and red anthers.

• black: Below this there are black anthers on red filaments.

• male: The male anthers are clearly visible, the stigma is beneath them, half way up the flower tube.

• purple: Flowers have white to greenish corollas and purple anthers and filaments.

Preposition: on

• filament: Below this there are black anthers on red filaments.

Modifies a noun

• development: The cell dies and stops anther development, so no pollen is produced.

• s.: Each flower has 10 showy, curved anther s. Flowers develop into cylindrical capsule s 15mm long, which contain many small flattened seeds.

• s: The males have yellow scale s and anther s but the shorter females are green.

• tube: Using higher magnification, it can be seen that many of the anther tubes have a collection of pollen grains at their tip.

• way: But if you are a tenant then you will have to find anther way of finding security for a loan.

Preposition: in

• form: The anthers in the long-styled form stand low down within the corolla, and are quite hidden.

Preposition: of

• stamen: Pollination: The transfer of pollen from the anther of a stamen to the stigma of a pistil.

Noun used with modifier

• cream: Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna AGM has slender, tapered leaves and the male flowers have cream anthers.