adjective. Having or consisting of four similar parts.

adjective. Having flower parts, such as sepals, petals, and stamens, in sets of four.

Consisting of or divided into four parts; characterized by having four parts.

adjective. Having the parts arranged in sets of four.

adjective. Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects.

adjective. in four parts: in a flower each whorl (of flower parts) has four flower parts.

adjective. having or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous flowers

"= -- An increased number of stamens frequently accompanies the corresponding alterations in other whorls, and seems, if anything, to be more frequent among monocotyledonous plants than among dicotyledonous ones; thus, we occasionally find tetramerous flowers in _Crocus_, _Hyacinthus_, _Tulipa_, _Iris_,"

dimerous  pentamerous  trimerous  

many-sided  multilateral  

tetramery  

amorous  glamorous  unglamorous