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The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.

Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.

Having four ribs.

Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious leaves. Loudon.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.

Having four forks, or branches.

A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts. Quadrigeminal bodies (Anat.), two pairs of lobes, or elevations, on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior the testes.

Consisting of four hundred.

Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf.

Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.

Consisting of four letters.

A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.

xed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.

Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular heart.

Possessing four nodes; as, quadrinodal curves.

A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus.