英语释义
1. a group or arrangement of four: such as
2. a group of four cells produced by the successive divisions of a mother cell 
a tetrad of spores
3. a group of four synapsed chromatids that become visibly evident in the pachytene stage of meiotic prophase
4. a group or arrangement of four: as
5. a tetravalent element, atom, or radical
6. a group of four cells arranged usually in the form of a tetrahedron and produced by the successive divisions of a mother cell 
a tetrad of spores
7. a group of four synapsed chromatids that become visibly evident in the pachytene stage of meiotic prophase and are produced by the longitudinal splitting of each of two paired homologous chromosomes