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