Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, five-ranked: in phyllotaxis, noting that arrangement in which the leaves are disposed upon the stem in five vertical rows or ranks, as in the apple-tree, the cones of the American larch, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.
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- adjective botany Having, or arranged in, five
vertical ranks .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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