Bot. [mod. ad. (De Candolle) Gr. ἀνθοφόρος, f. ἄνθο-ς flower + -φορος bearing.] The stalk which in some flowers raises the receptacle above the calyx.
1839. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (ed. 3), 211. In Caryophylleæ an internode below the receptacle is elongated, and bears on its summit the petals and stamens: De Candolle calls this anthophore.
1857. Henfrey, Elem. Bot., § 161. The stalk above the calyx of Silene, etc. is termed an anthophore.
