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Webster 1913 Edition

Octandria

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Oc-tan′dri-a

,

p

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.