Pōl'y-ăn'dri-ă, n.

n. [Fr. polyandrie, from Gr. πολύς, many, and ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, man, male.] (Bot.) A class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, in the Linnæan system, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.