/pak'euh san"dreuh/ , n.
any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
[ 1805-15; pachýs thick + Gk andr- (s. of anér man; see ANDRO-) + -a -A 2 ; so called in reference to the thick stamens of the male flowers ]