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A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.
A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.
Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade.
A tetrastyle building.
Alt. of Tetrasyllabical
Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.
Having four loculaments, or thecae.
A salt of tetrathionic acid.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H/S/O/, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic.
Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.
The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.
Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.
Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.
A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.
Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.
Alt. of Tetrical
Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.
Crabbedness; perverseness.
Tetric.