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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Botany. an overlapping arrangement of five petals or leaves, in which two are interior, two are exterior, and one is partly interior and partly exterior.
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Quincunx
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| method of forming complex organic materials using sunlight as energy source |
| female reproductive organ which produces eggs in bryophytes, ferns and most gymnosperms |
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quincunx
1640s, originally astrological, of planetary alignments, from L., lit. "five ounces," from quinque "five" + uncia "ounce, a twelfth part," related to unus "one" (see one). Applied, especially in garden design, to arrangements like the five pips on a playing card (1660s).
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