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Definition of Quinquefoliate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) having five leaflets.
Definition of Quinquefoliate
1. a. Having five leaves or leaflets.
Definition of Quinquefoliate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having five leaves or leaflets. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Quinquefoliate
Literary usage of Quinquefoliate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"In its simplest state the upper pinnas are trifoliate, and the lower quinquefoliate ;
from this it varies to a state in which the secondary rachis bear ..."
2. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"... quinquefoliate Virginian creeper (l and 2), of the adherent " Ampelopsis
Veitchii" (3 and 4),;and of the poison-vine, ..."
3. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1887)
"In section the column is quinquefoliate at the root, passing up into circular at
the base of the cnp. The portions figured do not represent the whole, ..."
4. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"They are unifoliate, as in the leaf of the orange tree ; trifoliate, as in
wood-sorrel, quinquefoliate, as in potentilla, &c. Pinnate, leaves arranged on ..."
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