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Tetrastyle

in architecture, having or consisting of four columns; having a portico consisting of four columns; as the Temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome; a portico, etc., consisting of four columns. A cavædium was called tetrastyle when the beams of the compluvium were supported by columns placed over against the four angles of a court. thyology, the type genus of Tetrodon tina, having the upper and lower jaws divided by a mesial suture, so as to separate the dentition into four distinct por-

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