quinquefoliate love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having five leaves, or, more commonly but less properly, five leaflets.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having five leaves or leaflets.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having five leaves or leaflets.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of a leaf shape) having five leaflets

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