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quinquangular, a.|kwɪnˈkwæŋgjʊlə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -ar: cf. F. quinquangulaire.]
Having five angles or corners; pentagonal.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. vi. (1712) 54 If it [a stone] be but exactly round..or ordinately Quinquangular. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 258 The leaves of Briony are broad, and quinquangular. 1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 701/1 The..Fortress..was of a Quinquangular Figure. 1826in Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 262. 1872 E. Trollope Sleaford 430 Its east end terminates in a quinquangular apse.
So quinˈquangulate, -ous adjs. (Lee Introd. Bot. 1788; Mayne Expos. Lex. 1858). |