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Plural of tetra

regular plural

The plural of tetra is tetras.

Forms of tetra

Singulartetra /ˈtɛ.tɹə/
Pluraltetras
Countablecountable

Tetras in a sentence

  • Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32
  • I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.From the entry platy

Meaning of tetra

  1. noun Any of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.

Full definition of tetra

Questions about the plural of tetra

What is the plural of tetra?
The plural of tetra is tetras.
Is tetra countable?
Tetra is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tetra (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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