pentamerous

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To take an example, the group Pseudostrobus, characterized by pentamerous leaf-fascicles, appears in many systems.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Thus, in both Lilium lancifolium and L. auratum the writer has frequently met with pentamerous flowers.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Thus the formula S5P5St5C5 means that the flower is perfect, and has pentamerous symmetry, the whorls being isomerous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Hydradephaga; -ous: applied to aquatic, predatory pentamerous beetles with filiform antennae: see adephagous.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

In the British Adoxa the uppermost flower generally has two calyx-lobes with the other organs tetramerous, while the surrounding flowers generally have three calyx-lobes with the other organs pentamerous.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles