quinate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of quinate
1800–10; < Latin quīn ( ī ) five each + -ate 1
Example Sentences
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It is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Radical leaves mostly long-petioled, cordate or even rounder, crenately toothed, very rarely lobed or divided; stem-leaves simply ternate or quinate, with the ovate or lanceolate leaflets serrate, incised, or sometimes parted; fruit ovate, 1½´´ long.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The common laburnum has a variety which often produces quaternate and quinate leaves, and in strawberries I have also seen instances of this abnormality.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland.
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
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