quinate

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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 Vries, Hugo de

It is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

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

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 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