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It has a stem about 6 in. high, cylindrical, the tubercles arranged spirally, their bases compressed, four or five-angled, and with a tuft of white wool in their axils.
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Their leaves are never deeply lobed like those of other pumpkins and squashes, but are more or less five-angled, or almost rounded and heart-shaped, at base: they are also softer than those of other pumpkins and squashes.
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WHEN our five-angled spears, that pierced the world
Regnum Caelorum Vim Patitur Mrs. Stuart Moore 1917
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At the foot of the tree up which it climbs the leaves are five-angled, higher up they lose the angles and become rounded, though growing on the same plant.
The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867
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It is itself "five-angled, and with its plane a five-sided solid, in which everything went by fives, or numbers of fives and powers of five."
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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In his classic Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America, Peattie drones on for 434 pages in language that can most generously be called workmanlike (typical passage: "Oaks are usually ponderous and heavy-wooded trees, with scaly or furrowed bark, and more or less five-angled twigs and, consequently, five-ranked leaves"), but when at last he turns his attention to the New England sugar maple and its vivid autumnal regalia, it is as if someone has spiked his cocoa.
I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999
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