‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. "e`x six + &unr_;, &unr_;, a man, male: cf. F. hexandrie.] (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens.
n. a city on the Mediterranean Sea, the chief port of Egypt. Syn. -- El Iskandariyah [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. 1. Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. [ 1913 Webster ]