quinquefarious

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  1. In botany, disposed in five vertical ranks. Gray.
  2. In zoology, disposed or arranged in five sets, rows, or series; quinqueserial; pentastichous.

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  1. from Latin quinque, = English five, + -farius, as in bifarious, etc.
 

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