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Rule "anther (another)"

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Description: anther (another)
Message: Did you mean another? An anther is part of a flower.
Category: Possible Typo (ID: TYPOS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I found anther problem with the test.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • There is more than one error; here's anther.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • There's anther workaround that I use.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • But we are not closed to anther solution you would strongly prefer.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • I hope you meant anther entry in the finder group?
    Correction suggestion: another
  • Lehman Brothers expects to add anther principal for this fund.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • We agree on the price of 90,000 USD by emailing anther version of the software...
    Correction suggestion: another
  • Someone on anther thread complained that Congress subpoenas weren't real.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • I saw anther new flower in our garden this morning.
    Correction suggestion: another
  • We saw one anther last week.
    Correction suggestion: another
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • I found another problem with the test.
  • An anther is the part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
  • As the flower develops, four groups of sporogenous cells form within the anther.
  • Its anther opens by an apical pore.
  • At the upper edge of the stigma of single-anthered orchids, in front of the anther cap, is the rostellum.
  • There was a strange anther problem.
  • In orchids, the labellum is the modified median petal that sits opposite from the fertile anther and usually highly modified from the other perianth segments.
  • These two methods demonstrated that there was an abundant presence of the RMD transcripts in the lemma, pistil, anther, and mature pollen grains.
  • A pollinium (plural pollinia) is a coherent mass of pollen grains in a plant that are the product of only one anther, but are transferred, during pollination, as a single unit.
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ID: ANTHER [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-26 22:33:08 +0200)