- Tetramery
In describing a flower, tetramery means that the flower parts are in fours: such as four
petal s in the crown.See also
*trimery
*pentamery
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Merous — Merosity is used to designate that a flower has whorls of floral parts in the perianth. It describes how many segments the whorl of petals or sepals or tepals have in a flower. Thus if a flower has five petals that look the same, then the flower… … Wikipedia
tetramerous — adjective in four parts: in a flower each whorl (of flower parts) has four flower parts. : As the name suggests the crucifers have tetramerous flowers. See Also: tetramery … Wiktionary
Merosity — is the number of component parts in each whorl of a plant structure. It is most commonly used in the context of flowers, in which case it refers to the number of sepals in the calyx, the number of petals in the corolla, and the number of stamens… … Wikipedia
