Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others, as in most plants of the mustard family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having six stamens, four longer arranged in opposite pairs, and two shorter, inserted lower down: a relation found only in the flowers of Cruciferæ. See cut under
stamen .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Belonging to the
order Tetradynamia; havingsix stamens , four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[tetra– + Greek dunamis, strength; see dynamic + –ous.]
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Examples
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In other cases the variations in size are of a less general character, and affect certain organs of a whorl in a relative manner, as, for instance, in the case of didynamous or tetradynamous stamens, where two or four stamens are longer than their fellows, the long or short stamens and styles of di - and tri-morphic flowers, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It is a pretty purplish white, tetradynamous plant, which blows from
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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