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Definition of Tetra
1. Noun. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
Group relationships: Genus Hemigrammus, Hemigrammus
Definition of Tetra
1. Noun. Any of several species of small South American freshwater fish of the family ''Characidae'', popular in home aquaria. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tetra
1. a tropical fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetra
Literary usage of Tetra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"A. Tri-, tetra-, and Penta-methylenes. Derivatives of tri- and tetra-methylene,
in especial carboxylic acids, eg Tri methylene-mono-carboxylic acid, ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1900)
"In aqueous solution this salt splits up according to the identical reaction that
has been given to the decomposition of the tetra-vanadates, into meta and ..."
3. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"The tetra- hydro naphthylamine obtained must have the four hydrogens added to
the other nucleus than the one to which the amino group is linked because on ..."
4. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"By the Grignard reaction, it yields lead tetra-p-2-xylyl, which is only decomposed
at temperatures above 270.° Attempts to prepare the corresponding simpler ..."
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