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quinate

[kwahy-nayt] / ˈkwaɪ neɪt /


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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

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

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 Asa Gray

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 Hugo de Vries


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