quinate

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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 Vries, Hugo de

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 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

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 Conant, Levi Leonard

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