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Definition of Tetramerous
1. Adjective. Having or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous flowers.
Definition of Tetramerous
1. a. Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.
Definition of Tetramerous
1. Adjective. (botany) in four parts: in a flower each whorl (of flower parts) has four flower parts. ¹
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Definition of Tetramerous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Tetramerous
1. Of a flower, having four segments in each perianth whorl, and usually in each whorl of stamens also. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetramerous
Literary usage of Tetramerous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1827)
"On the Structure of the Tarsus in the tetramerous and Tri- merous Coleoptera of
the French Entomologists. By WS Mac- Leay, ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Cn (_w), which, as has already been said, is especially characteristic of flowers
with pentamerous or truly tetramerous whorls. ..."
3. Text-book of General Botany by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"Corresponding to these floral types we have trimerous, tetramerous, ... Trimerous,
tetramerous, and pentamerous floral diagrams. on the radii of circle 3 ..."
4. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Leaves simple ; fl. tetramerous, in dichotomous cymes . 6. ... Flowers tetramerous,
in axillary cymes ; leaves glabrous . 10. ..."
5. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"Notwithstanding it is tetramerous, I think it is allied to Lasiandra Martialis,
Cham. The genera stand thus:— Pen tam erous, limb of calyx deciduous . ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"Passing over some slight points, one may say that the plan of Klein differs from
that of Eichler in maintaining a tetramerous inner whorl of stamens and a ..."
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