quinquefarious love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, disposed in five vertical ranks.
  • In zoology, disposed or arranged in five sets, rows, or series; quinqueserial; pentastichous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.

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  • adjective botany, rare Arranged in five vertical rows.

Etymologies

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From Latin quīnque ("five"), ferō ("carry, bear").

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  • (botany) adj: opening into five parts.

    July 26, 2008