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Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits.

A solid having five summits or angular points.

A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.

Having five digits to the hand or foot.

Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden.

Divided or cleft into five parts.

A work in five different tongues.

A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. Regular pentagon, a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.

Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles. Sir T. Browne.

A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.

Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure.

A solid figure having five sides.

A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.

An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.

Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

A verse of five feet.

the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.