1810 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 4) III. 106 Kinates. Hitherto only one species of this genus of salts has been examined, the kinate of lime, which exists in a species of Peruvian bark.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 352 Adding a solution of subacetate of lead to a neutral kinate [1862 quinate].

1871 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 161 4 The juice..mixed with milk of lime..readily yields on evaporation an abundant crop of crystals of calcic quinate.

1988 Nature 11 Aug. 518/2 Cells grown under strictly anaerobic conditions in pre-reduced medium with nitrous oxide and 25 μM ferric quinate, contained a chain of approximately ten iron-rich magnetosomes.

1999 Ecology 80 1974/2 Concentrations of 5-caffeoylquinic and 5-coumaroylquinic acids were significantly higher in fertilized saplings, whereas the opposite was true for corresponding quinates substituted at 3-position.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. vi. 183 They are termed Binate, Ternate, or Quinate, growing two, three, or five together, according to the number of Folioles, of which the digitate Leaf consists.

1792 T. Martyn Flora Rustica §16 Trifolium lupinaster... The heads of flowers halved; the leaves quinate or in fives, and sessile.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 115 Leaves..compound, quinate or septenate.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 4 A quinate leaf consists of five leaflets, as in Marsh Cinquefoil.

1896 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23 303 Leaves quinate as well as ternate, leaflets deeply toothed, in the quinate leaves the lower ones often smaller.

1914 G. R. Shaw Genus Pinus ii. 32 Pinus parviflora... A tree of the mountains of Japan and Formosa,..it is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.

1985 J. Soule Gloss. Hort. Crops 83 (caption) A quinate leaf typified by dewberry (Rubus trivialis).