Medical Definition of Tetradynamous
1. Of an androecium, consisting of four stamens of the same length and two of a different length. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetradynamous
Literary usage of Tetradynamous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... by the cruciform arrangement of the petals, which are always four, in conjunction
with tetradynamous stamens, and the fruit a silique or silicic. ..."
2. Bulletin by Philippines Bureau of Education (1908)
"Not tetradynamous ; leaves compound. 5. Carpels 2 (91) Capparidaceae ...
Not tetradynamous; leaves simple. 5. Leaves peltate (104) Tropaeolaceae 5. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"There tho staminal whorl consists of four long stamens and two short
ones (tetradynamous). The symmetry in tho flower is evidently ..."
4. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"... tetradynamous. ... Stamens not tetradynamous. ... 27 27 Calyx open in the bud.
Pod open before ripe. ..."
5. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"Corolla of four regular petals, with claws, their spreading limbs forming a
cross (Fig. 694). Stamens six, two of them shorter (tetradynamous, Fig. ..."
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