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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or forming a quincunx.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disposed so as to form a quincunx; arranged in a set of five; also, arranged in two sets of oblique rows, at right angles to one another, so that five together form a quincunx; in botany, sometimes noting a pentastichous arrangement of leaves; more often noting an estivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Having the form of a quincunx.
- (Bot.) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.
- (Bot.) an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.
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- adjective Arranged in a
quincunx .
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Examples
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Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of all fruit-trees, set and ranged in a quincuncial order.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of all fruit-trees, set and ranged in a quincuncial order.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nevertheless the spiral order does occur in the floral leaves as well as in those of the stem; it often happens, especially when the organs are numerous, that they form spiral series; and the same holds good very generally, when the parts of the flower are uneven in number, as in the very common quincuncial arrangement of the sepals, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The quincuncial arrangement of the dots is effected by the punching, moistening, and fastening down of odd and even dots, combined with the forward movement of the tissue to be chenilled.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of all fruit-trees, set and ranged in a quincuncial order.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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