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Webster 1913 Edition


Octandria


Oc-tan′dri-a

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rop.
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ὀκτα-
(for
ὀκτώ
eight) + [GREEK], [GREEK], male, man.]
(Bot.)
A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.