QUINCUNCIAL

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Having the form of a quincunx.

2.
n.

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 æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.


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