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quinate

American  
[kwahy-nayt] / ˈkwaɪ neɪt /

adjective

Botany.
  1. arranged in groups of five.


quinate British  
/ ˈkwaɪneɪt /

adjective

  1. botany arranged in or composed of five parts

    quinate leaflets

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of quinate

1800–10; < Latin quīn ( ī ) five each + -ate 1

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The European Venus' looking-glass was observed in my garden to produce some quaternate and some quinate flowers on the same specimens.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

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 Hugo de Vries

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 Hugo de Vries

More than 1,000 were quaternate or quinate, the ternate leaves being still in the majority.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

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 Hugo de Vries

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