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Terminology about trees

In set theory, a tree is usually defined as a partial order such that the set of elements below any given one is well-ordered. I am interested in the class of partial orders $P$ such that for every $...
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Does this property of a partially ordered set have a name?

What do you call a poset with this property? For any elements $a,b,c,d$ such that $\{a,b\}\le\{c,d\}$, there is an element x such that $\{a,b\}\le x\le\{c,d\}$. (Equivalently, for any finite sets $A\...
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