| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb anticously.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (anticously) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective anticous.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ANTICOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Anticous \An*ti"cous\, adjective. [Latin expression anticus in front, foremost, from ante before.]. (references) |
