Category: T
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Tetraploid
With four complete sets of chromosomes. Twice the usual number (diploid) of chromosomes. Concerning tetraploidy, the state of having twice the diploid number of chromosomes.
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Tetrangular
With four angles.
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Tetrandrous
With four stamens.
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Tetramerous
(Of a flower) with the constituent parts in whorls of four. With four members, the flower parts in four.
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Tetrahedriform
Shaped like a tetrahedon, with four faces, each face triangular; pyramidal.
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Tetrahedral
Shaped like an equal-sided pyramid.
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Tetragonous
Four-angled.
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Tetragonal
With four angles in cross-section.
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Tetradynamous
With four long stamens and two short ones (as in Cruciferae/Brassicaceae). When having six stamens, two of them shorter than the rest.
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Tetrad
Group of four pollen grains (formed from a single pollen mother-cell) that are released from the anther as one unit (e.g. in Drosera). A cluster of four pollen grains released from the anther as a single unit. A group of four spores formed from a spore mother cell after meiosis. The four cells resulting from…