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单词 pentastichous
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pentastichousadj.

Brit. /pɛnˈtastᵻkəs/, U.S. /pɛnˈtæstəkəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pentastichus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin pentastichus (1859 or earlier as a specific epithet; < ancient Greek πεντα- penta- comb. form + στίχος row, line: see stich n.) + -ous suffix; compare -stichous comb. form.R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1857) gives a Latin form pentastichus.
Botany.
Designating, relating to, or having a spiral arrangement of leaves in which there are five leaves in each turn of the spiral about the stem, and thus five vertical rows of leaves in the phyllotaxis.
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the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > having or consisting of specific number of layers or rows
uniserial1828
uniseriate1831
bifarious1846
trifarious1846
pentastichous1850
tristichous1857
multiseriate1859
tetrastichous1866
trilamellar1900
1850 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 3) v. 143 The pentastichous, quincuncial, or five-ranked arrangement.
1888 G. Henslow Origin Floral Structures ii. 12 It will be discovered that the heptastichous..type arises out of verticils of threes, in precisely the same way as the pentastichous..type does from an opposite and decussate arrangement.
1984 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 107 479 Three types of phyllotaxis are described in the genus Dampiera: distichous (1/2), tristichous (1/3) and pentastichous (2/5).
1990 Cryptogamie, Bryologie-Lichénologie 11 163 Two new pentastichous species of Zygodon..are described from high elevation in Venezuela.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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