tetradynamous
having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
Origin of tetradynamous
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How to use tetradynamous in a sentence
Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.
Thus in Cruciferous plants the staminal whorl consists of four long stamens and two short ones (tetradynamous).
The four inner stamens are longer than the two outer; and the stamens are hence collectively described as tetradynamous.
Stamens mostly 6, tetradynamous (two inserted lower and shorter).
tetradynamous, where a flower has six stamens, two shorter than the four, 101.
The Elements of Botany | Asa Gray
British Dictionary definitions for tetradynamous
/ (ˌtɛtrəˈdaɪnəməs, -ˈdɪn-) /
(of plants) having six stamens, two of which are shorter than the others
Origin of tetradynamous
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