quinate

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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

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

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

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

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

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell