quincuncialadj.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 512 For the order of setting trees..we ought to follow the usuall manner of checquer row, called Quincuntiall [Fr. il fault suyure la commune maniere de les planter en eschiquier].

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 89 The Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients.

1705 T. Greenhill in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2011 They were in number 22, some triangular, quadrangular, quincuncial, etc.

1781 T. Pennant Genera of Birds (new ed.) Pref. p. viii Feathers..on the body are placed in a quincuncial form, most apparent in the thick-skinned water-fowl.

1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1082 The very same remark applies in the same force to the interesting..Treatise on the Quincuncial Plantations of the Ancients.

1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds iii. 102 Scales on the back rounded, quincuncial, imbricate.

1885 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 75/2 Cocoa-nut palms, planted in quincuncial fashion.

1939 D. D. Paterson Statist. Techn. in Agric. Res. 193 Four border trees on a triangular or quincuncial layout.

1963 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 26 583 The same quincuncial idea is found in Minangkabau, where disputes over land ownership required for their settlement the unanimous testimony of..the heads of the families owning the four surrounding plots.

1988 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 94 175 Autozooids oval to hexagonal, in strict quincuncial arrangement.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 115 Nor is there greater Art in the Forms, than in the Foulds or Postures of Leaves; both answerably varying, as this or that way they may be most agreeable. Of the Quincuncial posture, so amply instanc'd in by the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, I shall omit to speak.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 63 Petals equal in number to the segments of the calyx, with a quincuncial æstivation.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 139 The successive leaves as they are produced on the stem..are also arranged in similar cycles. This arrangement of cycles of five is by far the most common in Dicotyledonous Plants. It is termed the quincuncial, pentastichous, or five-ranked arrangement.

1887 Jrnl. Educ. 9 520/1 The numbers and arrangements of leaves could be explained on mathematical principles, and..the quincuncial or tristichous arrangement could be..indicated by fractions.

1912 New Phytologist 11 51 In this way a short stem was produced, without internodes and covered with leaf-bases in quincuncial arrangement.

1976 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 646 We can see the following types of aestivation in whorled perianths: overlapping of the perianth segments (imbricate), either in the primitive ²/ ₅ arrangement (quincuncial, e.g. the calyx of Rosa..), or twisted like a propellor [etc.].

1990 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 77 1476/1 Phyllotaxis quincuncial (= in five ranks). Number of leaves..three or more or each sympodial unit.

2006 Molecular Phylogenetics & Evol. 39 712/1 The first character studied was whether the calyx consists of a single whorl of five quincuncial sepals..or of two whorls, each with..four sepals.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 153 The legges alone do move Quincuncially by single angles.

?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. XII. 578 The Sea-viper. Greenish-ash colour above, paler beneath, with round black spots quincuncially disposed in four series down the back.

1842 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 10. 34 The tongue is very long..with the spinous teeth arranged quincuncially in five series.

1936 New Phytologist 35 47 In the most fully developed species and hybrids of Cistus the flower has five quincuncially arranged sepals.

2001 Micropaleontology 47 248/2 [Distinguished] from Diacanthocapsa comys by..pores of thorax being quincuncially arranged in polygonal frames, rather than longitudinally aligned.