teter 



tetrastichous 



te'ter (Lat., offensive), having a foul 

 smell. 



Tetrablas'tus (rerpas, four, j3Aa<7Tos, 

 a bud), Koerber's terra for those 

 Lichen-spores which consist of 

 four cells ; tetracam'arous, -rus 

 ( -|- CAMARUS), of four closed 

 carpels ; tetracarpel'lary (Kap-rrbs, 

 fruit), of four carpels ; Tetracaro'tin 

 ( + CAROTIN), a lipochrome pigment 

 resembling carotin. 



Tetracnae'nium J (Ttrpds, four, + 

 ACHAENIUM), a fruit of four ad- 

 herent achenes, as in Labiatae ; 

 Tetrachocar'pium (rerpaxa, four- 

 fold, Kap-jrbs, fruit) = TUTRASPOHE ; 

 tetrachot'omous, tctrachot'omus 

 (rfjj-vu, I cut), when a cyme, in its 

 restricted sense of fascicle, bears 

 four lateral peduncles about the 

 terminal flower. 



tetracoc'cous, -cus (rerpaj, four, 

 KOKKOS, a berry), (1) consisting of 

 four closed carpels ; (2) applied to 

 bacteria when in four segments ; 

 tetracy'clic (KVK\OS, a circle), when 

 a flower is composed of four whorls 

 of organs. 



Tet'rad (rerpaSiov, a set or group of 

 four), a body formed of four cells, 

 as in the formation of pollen in the 

 pollen-mother-cells. 



tetrad'ymous (rerpddv/j.os, fourfold), 

 (1) having .four cells or cases; (2) 

 when the lamellae of an Agaric are 

 arranged so that alternate lamellae 

 are shorter than the intermediates, 

 and one complete lamella terminates 

 a set of four pairs, short and long. 



Tetradyna'mia (rerpas, four, SiVa/us, 

 power), a Linnean class which is 

 characterized by possessing tetrady- 

 namous stamens ; tetrady'namous, 

 -mus, having four long stamens and 

 two short, as in Cruciferae ; tetra- 

 folia'tus, tetrafo'lius (folium, & leaf), 

 four-leaved, more correctly tetra, 

 phyllous ; tetrag'onal (yuvla, an 

 angle), four-angled ; Tetragonidan'- 

 gium ( + GONIDANGIUM), a sexual re- 

 productive organ in Floridean Algae, 

 producing tetragonidia ; Tetra- 

 gonid'ium(+ GONIDIUM), asexually 



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produced spores of Florideae, etc., 

 usually in groups of four ; tetra- 

 g'onous (ywvia, an angle), four- 

 angled ; Tetragyn'ia (ywTj, a 

 woman), a Linnean artificial order, 

 the members having flowers with 

 four pistils ; tetrag'ynous, of four 

 carpels or styles ; tetram'erous, -rus 

 (nepos, a part), of four members ; 

 tetramor'phic (/j.op(f>ri, shape), having 

 flowers of four forms, varying as 

 to length of style, anthers and 

 stigmas, as in Epigaea repens, 

 Linn. ; tetran'der, tetran'drous 

 (dvrjp, dvdpbs, a man), with four 

 stamens ; Tetran'dria, a Linnean 

 class of tetrandrous plants ; tetra- 

 nu'cleate ( + NUCLEUS), having four 

 nuclei (Brebner) ; tetra-pet'alous, 

 -lus (TreTa\oi>, a flower leaf), having 

 four petals ; tetraphylet'ic ((pv\ri, a 

 tribe), applied to hybrids with four 

 strains in their descent ; tetra- 

 phyl'lous, -lus (<pv\\ov, a leaf), four- 

 leaved. 



tetraplocau'lous (rerpaTrAdos, fourfold 

 + CAULIS), having quaternary axes 

 (Pax). 



tetrap'terous (rerpa? four ; irrepov, a 

 wing), four-winged, four produced 

 angles ; tetrapyre'nus (irvfrijv, a 

 kernel), with four stones or seeds 

 in the fruit ; tetraque'ter, tetra- 

 que*brous (quadra, a square), with 

 four sharp angles ; tet'rarcn (a.px'ft, 

 beginning), with four vascular 

 strands in a fibrovascular cylinder 

 or stele. 



tetrari'nus (rerpas, four, app-rji', male), 

 Necker's version of TETRANDROUS ; 

 tetraschis'tic (o-x'fTos, split), divid- 

 ing into four ; tetrasep'alous, -lus 

 ( + SEPALUM), having four sepals ; 

 tetrasperm'ous (a-rep/j-a, a seed), 

 with four seeds ; Tetrasporan'gium 

 ( + SPORANGIUM), a unicellular spor- 

 angium containing tetraspores ; 

 Tet'raspore (crn-opd, a seed), a spore 

 formed by division of the spore- 

 mother-cell- into four parts ; tetra- 

 spor'ic, tetraspor'ous, bearing tetra- 

 spores; tetras'tichous, -cAws (trrixos, 

 a row), in four vertical ranks. 



