al·ex·an·drine also Al·ex·an·drine 
(ăl′ĭg-zăndrĭn)
(ăl′ĭg-zăndrĭn)n.
1. A line of English verse composed in iambic hexameter, usually with a caesura after the third foot.
2. A line of French verse consisting of 12 syllables with a caesura usually falling after the sixth syllable.
adj.
Characterized by or composed in either of these meters.
[French alexandrin, from Old French, from Alexandre, title of a romance about Alexander the Great that was written in this meter.]
- hydropathy
- hydrophane
- hydrophanous
- hydrophile
- hydrophilic
- hydrophilicity
- hydrophilous
- hydrophily
- hydrophobia
- hydrophobic
- hydrophobicity
- hydrophone
- hydrophyte
- hydrophytic
- hydroplane
- hydroponic
- hydroponically
- hydroponicist
- hydroponics
- hydroponist
- hydropower
- hydroquinol
- hydroquinone
- hydroscope
- hydroscopic