A Linnaean class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.
[=i]-ko-san'dri-a, n. a class of plants having not less than twenty stamens in the calyx.--adjs. ICOSAN'DRIAN, ICOSAN'DROUS. [Gr. eikosi, twenty, an[=e]r, andros, a male.]
n. [Greek] A class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.