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TETRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tetra mean?
• TETRA (noun)
The noun TETRA has 1 sense:
1. brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
Familiarity information: TETRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("tetra" is a kind of...):
characid; characin; characin fish (any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae)
Holonyms ("tetra" is a member of...):
genus Hemigrammus; Hemigrammus (tetras)
Context examples
A variety of simple di- , tri- , tetra-, and pentanucleotide tandem repeats that are dispersed in the euchromatic arms of most chromosomes.
(Microsatellite Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)
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