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quincuncial, a.|kwɪnˈkʌnʃəl|
Also 7 -untial.
[ad. L. quincunciāl-is: see quincunx n. and cf. F. quinconcial.]
Arranged in the form of a quincunx or quincunxes; involving or characterized by this arrangement.
1601Holland Pliny I. 512 For the order of setting trees..wee ought to follow the vsuall maner of checquer row, called Quincuntial. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus i. 89 The Quincunciall, Lozenge or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients. 1705T. Greenhill in Phil. Trans. XXV. 2011 They were in number 22, some triangular, quadrangular, quincuncial, etc. 1870Gillmore tr. Figuier's Reptiles & Birds iii. 102 Scales on the back rounded, quincuncial, imbricate. 1885Macm. Mag. Nov. 75/2 Cocoa-nut palms, planted in quincuncial fashion.
b. Bot. Of æstivation: Having five leaves so disposed that two are exterior and two interior, while the fifth is partly exterior and partly interior.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 63 Petals equal in number to the segments of the calyx, with a quincuncial æstivation. 1887Jrnl. Educ. Dec. 520 The quincuncial or tristichous arrangement [of leaves].
Hence quinˈcuncially adv., in a quincuncial manner; in the form of a quincunx.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus 153 The legges alone do move Quincuncially by single angles. 1842Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 10. 34 The tongue is very long..with the spinous teeth arranged quincuncially in five series. |