quinate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of quinate
1800–10; < Latin quīn ( ī ) five each + -ate 1
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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
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
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 Levi Leonard Conant
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
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 Hugo de Vries
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