[L.]
1. The posterior opening of the alimentary canal in animals, through which the excrements are ejected.
1658. J. R., trans. Mouffet’s Theat. Ins., 1122. Take salt flesh … and thrust that into the Anus.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. ii. § 2 ¶ 37. The whole alimentary Duct, quite down to the Anus.
1872. Nicholson, Palæont., 321. The fins … are always placed far back, in the neighbourhood of the anus.
2. An opening at the base of a flower.
1730. Martyn, in Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 380. These Flowers have no Anus at the Base.
1880. Syd. Soc. Lex., Anus, in Botany, the inferior aperture of a monopetalous flower.
