‖ Deˈcandria Bot.
[mod. Bot. L. (Linnæus) f. Gr. δέκα ten + ἀνδρ- man, male, taken as ‘male organ, stamen’.]
In the Sexual System of Linnæus, the class of plants having ten stamens.
| 1775 in Ash. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. ix. 89 Decandria, which has ten stamens. |
Hence deˈcandrian a. = next.
| 1828 in Webster. |