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‖ Tetrandria Bot.|tɛˈtrændrɪə|
[mod.L. (Linnæus, 1735), f. Gr. τετρα- tetra- + ἀνδρ-, stem of ἀνήρ man, male: cf. polyandria, etc.]
The fourth class in the Linnæan Sexual System, comprising plants bearing hermaphrodite flowers with four equal stamens. Also an order in the classes Gynandria, Monœcia, and Diœcia, having four stamens. So teˈtrander, a plant having four stamens (Webster 1828); teˈtrandrian a., having four stamens (ibid.); teˈtrandrious (Mayne 1860), teˈtrandrous adjs., having four equal stamens; belonging to the class Tetrandria.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xxiii. (1765) 130 Tetrandria, comprehending such Plants as have four Stamina. 1806J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 261 Tetrandrous: spikes filiform, panicled. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 72 Penæa has also tetrandrous flowers. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. iv. 39 In the Nettle, then, we have..in the male flower, stamens hypogynous, tetrandrous. |