Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous small colorful tropical freshwater fishes chiefly of the family Characidae, such as the neon tetra, often kept in home aquariums.
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- noun Any of several
species of smallSouth American freshwater fish of thefamily Characidae , popular in homeaquaria .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What's strange about the tetra is that, even dead, the fish had beautiful color.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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I find it encouraging to see consumers picking up wine packaged in tetra-pack containers, wine bars pouring from a keg, and more and more creativity to find real value for the consumer.
Brad Haskel: How Bad Times Might Help Us Find a Real Wine Culture Brad Haskel 2010
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I find it encouraging to see consumers picking up wine packaged in tetra-pack containers, wine bars pouring from a keg, and more and more creativity to find real value for the consumer.
Brad Haskel: How Bad Times Might Help Us Find a Real Wine Culture Brad Haskel 2010
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His work is spectacular (3 Thieves, the Rose, Treb in tetra paks, etc.)
Keg wine comes to the Finger Lakes, NY | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Here in Sweden you can buy egg yolks on tetra and I suppose that it wouldn't be impossible if there where egg whites on tetra too, if you look for it. (if you don't know what a tetra is you can find a good explanation on wikipedia, too long for me to explain now =) just search tetrapak)
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The lower nitrates known as the tetra - and tri-nitrates are formed together when cellulose is treated with a mixture of weak acids, and allowed to remain in contact with them for a very short time (twenty minutes).
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EDTA stands for ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid, which is a synthetic amino acid that is delivered intravenously.
FDA cracks down on experimental autism therapy Rob Stein 2010
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After innumerable quasi-rhomboids and tetra-dodecahedra, scientists were puzzled to see several totally new shapes believed not to be possible in 3-Dimensional Euclidean space.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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I bet his daddy's car ran on tetra ethol lead gas.
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It is my sad duty to inform you all that Typhoid Mary, our one remaining tetra in the five gallon tank who bravely survived (for several weeks) the attack of the moldy, zombie horde, died yesterday of an unknown cause.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
missanthropist commented on the word tetra
Greek Fourfold.
July 11, 2008