quinate
Example Sentences
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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
It is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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 Hugo de Vries
The smaller numbers however, are more constant, and deviations from the quinate structure of flowers are rare.
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
