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What does extrorse mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Said of anthers dehiscing outwards from the center of the flower.
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Filaments thread-like, much longer than the linear-oblong blunt anthers, which are fixed by a point above the base and extrorse.
These pitchers are extrorse, and according to habitat can be red, green, yellow, or orange, and are as long as 21 cm.
Anthers are juxtaposed, included in the corolla, extrorse and open longitudinally.
Anthers heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, confluently 1-celled, shield-shaped after opening, extrorse.
The whole perianth was colored, the anther dehiscence was extrorse, the stigma was subulate, and the perianth was hexamerous.
These pollen sacs can face outward, in which case the stamens are called extrorse, or inward, in which case the stamens are called introrse.

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