quinate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of quinate
1800–10; < Latin quīn ( ī ) five each + -ate 1
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
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.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
The quinate were placed at the end of the branches, those with four petals and sepals lower down.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
This number in one summer amounted to 46 quaternate and 16 quinate leaves, and it was evident that I had secured an instance of the rare "five-leaved" race which I am about to describe.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
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