anticous,a.Bot.|ænˈtaɪkəs|[f.L. antīc-us front (f.ante before) + -ous.]Fronting the axis of the whorl to which it belongs, as anthers whose line of dehiscence looks towards the pistils.1870HookerStud.Flora 273Melampyrum..Disk an hypogynous anticous gland.1880GrayBot.Text-bk.vi. §6. 253An anther is..Introrse..or Anticous, when it faces toward the axis of the flower.