Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tetractinellida

Tetractinellida , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek te`tra- tetra- + {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, ray, spoke.]

(Zoology) A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae.