Category: T

  • 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.  

  • Tetrangular

    With four angles.  

  • Tetrandrous

    With four stamens.  

  • Tetramerous

    (Of a flower) with the constituent parts in whorls of four. With four members, the flower parts in four.  

  • Tetrahedriform

    Shaped like a tetrahedon, with four faces, each face triangular; pyramidal.  

  • Tetrahedral

    Shaped like an equal-sided pyramid.  

  • Tetragonous

    Four-angled.  

  • Tetragonal

    With four angles in cross-section.  

  • Tetradynamous

    With four long stamens and two short ones (as in Cruciferae/Brassicaceae). When having six stamens, two of them shorter than the rest.  

  • 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…