Usually means: Pollen-bearing parts facing outward.
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  1. extrorse: Merriam-Webster
  2. extrorse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extrorse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extrorse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extrorse: Wordnik
  6. extrorse: Wiktionary
  7. extrorse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. extrorse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. extrorse: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. extrorse: Dictionary.com
  11. Extrorse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Extrorse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. extrorse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Extrorse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. extrorse: FreeDictionary.org
  16. extrorse: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. extrorse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. extrorse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Extrorse: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extrorse)

▸ adjective:  (botany) Said of anthers dehiscing outwards from the center of the flower.

Similar:
extrorsal, posticous, latrorse, extragynoecial, exotegmic, exorhizal, exserted, exothecial, exorhizous, anticous, more...

Opposite:
introrse, introverted, inward-facing

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Similar:
extrorsal, posticous, latrorse, extragynoecial, exotegmic, exorhizal, exserted, exothecial, exorhizous, anticous, more...

Opposite:
introrse, introverted, inward-facing



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