Oc-tān'dri-ā, n.

n. [Fr. octandrie, from Gr. ὀκτώ, eight, and ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, male, man.] (Bot.) A class of plants, according to the system of Linnæus, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another, or to the pistil.