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

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

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

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