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quin⋅cun⋅cial

  [kwin-kuhn-shuhl, kwing-]
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–adjective
1. consisting of, arranged, or formed like a quincunx or quincunxes.
2. Botany. noting a five-ranked arrangement of leaves.
Also, quin⋅cun⋅xial.

Origin:
1595–1605; < L quīncunciālis, equiv. to quīncunci- (s. of quīncunx quincunx ) + -ālis -al 1

Related forms:
quin⋅cun⋅cial⋅ly, adverb
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quin·cun·cial also quin·cunx·ial   (kwĭn-kŭn'shəl)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or forming a quincunx.
quin·cun'cial·ly adv.
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Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Quincuncial

Quin*cun"cial\, [L. quincuncialis, from quincunx. See Quincunx.]

1. Having the form of a quincunx.

2. (Bot.) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial [ae]stivation.

Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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