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3 words match “QUINCUNCIAL”

QUINCUNCIAL n. 2 definitions
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.
QUINCUNCIALLY adv.
In the manner or order of a quincunx.
QUINCUNX n.
A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in æstivation. See Quincuncial, 2.