Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Arranged in groups of five.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having an arrangement of five similar parts together, as five leaflets on a petiole.
- noun In chem., a salt of quinic acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of quinic acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry An
ester or asalt ofquinic acid . - adjective botany Featuring five
leaflets growing from a single point;quinquefoliolate .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In some scales a single word only is found in the second quinate to indicate that 5 was originally the base on which the system rested.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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It is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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The quinate were placed at the end of the branches, those with four petals and sepals lower down.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The common laburnum has a variety which often produces quaternate and quinate leaves, and in strawberries I have also seen instances of this abnormality.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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These flowers are ordinarily described as belonging to the anomaly [164] known as "peloria," or regular form of a normally symmetric type; they are large and irregular on the stems and the vigorous branches but slender and quinate on the weaker twigs.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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One of the most curious instances is the terminal flower of the raceme of the common laburnum, which loses its whole papilionaceous character and becomes as regularly quinate as a common buttercup.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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More than 1,000 were quaternate or quinate, the ternate leaves being still in the majority.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The European Venus 'looking-glass was observed in my garden to produce some quaternate and some quinate flowers on the same specimens.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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