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OCTANDRIA

Volume 7 · 35 words · 1778 Edition

(ὀκτά, "eight," and ἄνθρωπος, "man, or husband"), the eighth class in Linnaeus' sexual system; consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers, which are furnished with eight stamina, or male organs of generation. See Botany, p. 1392.