in botany: A genus of the digynia order, belonging to the diandria clas of plants; the essential characters of which are: The calyx is a single-leaved, four-toothed perianthium, four-awn'd, the awns terminated with cross-barbs: The corolla is four-cleft; the stigma pencil'd.

ANDABATÆ, in antiquity, a sort of gladiators, who, mounted on horseback or in chariots, fought hoodwinked, having a helmet that covered their eyes.