quinque-comb. form
Forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘having, consisting of, etc., five of the things indicated by the second element of the compound’.† quinquearticulate adj. [after post-classical Latin quinquearticulatus (1777 or earlier)] Zoology Obsolete rare having five joints.† quinquecapsular adj. [probably after post-classical Latin quinquecapsularis (1684 or earlier)] Botany Obsolete rare (of a plant) bearing fruit having five capsules.† quinquedentated adj. [after post-classical Latin quinquedentatus quinquedentate adj.] Botany and Zoology Obsolete = quinquedentate adj. 1.† quinquedigitate adj. Zoology Obsolete rare = pentadactyl adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.† quinquedigitated adj. Botany Obsolete rare = quinate adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.† quinquejugous adj. [probably after scientific Latin quinquejugus (1764 or earlier)] Botany Obsolete rare having five pairs of leaflets (cf. jugate adj. 1).† quinquelibral adj. [after classical Latin quinquelibrālis] Obsolete containing or weighing five pounds.† quinquemestrial adj. [probably after classical Latin quinquemestris] Obsolete rare produced every five months.† quinquemetre n. Obsolete rare = pentameter n. 2.† quinquenerval adj. Botany Obsolete rare = quinquenerved adj.† quinquepedal adj. Obsolete rare having five feet.† quinquepedalian adj. Obsolete rare containing five syllables or feet; polysyllabic.† quinquepetaloid adj. Zoology Obsolete rare consisting of five petaloid ambulacra.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.† quinquepunctal adj. Obsolete rare five-pointed.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.† quinquepunctate adj. [after scientific Latin quinquepunctatus (1758 in a specific name); compare French quinqueponctué (1845 or earlier)] Botany and Zoology Obsolete rare having or bearing five dots or punctures.† quinqueseptate adj. Mycology Obsolete rare having five septa.† quinqueseriate adj. Botany Obsolete rare = quinqueserial adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.† quinquevalve n. and adj. Zoology Obsolete (a) n.a shell of five valves; (b) adj. having five valves.† quinquevalvous adj. Botany Obsolete rare having five sections or openings.† quinquevalvular adj. Botany Obsolete rare (esp. of a fruit capsule) having five sections or openings.† quinqueverbal adj. Obsolete rare consisting of five words.That is, the Latin words hoc est enim corpus meum (‘for this is my body’) in the prayer of consecration at the Mass.† quinqueverbial adj. Obsolete rare = quinqueverbal adj.
quinqueannulate adj. 
/ˌkwɪŋkwɪˈanjᵿleɪt/, /ˌkwɪŋkwiˈænjəˌleɪt/ [after post-classical Latin quinqueannulatus (1849 or earlier)] Zoology having or consisting of five rings.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwɪˈanjᵿlət/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwɪˈanjᵿlət//ˌkwɪŋkwɪˈanjᵿleɪt/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwiˈænjələt/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwiˈænjələt//ˌkwɪŋkwiˈænjəˌleɪt/ΚΠ
1856 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 318 Abdomen quinqueannulate [L. Abdomen quinqueannulatum].
1954 Amer. Midland Naturalist 52 462 [Somites] IX through XXIII are quinquiannulate.
1990 Acta Zoologica 71 161 Quinquannulate midbody segments.
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1856 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 300 Antennæ filiform, quinquearticulate [L. Antennae filiformes, quinquearticulati].
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 74 A pair of quinquearticulate legs.
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xxix. 142 In Aconitum some [species] are tricapsular, and others quinquecapsular.
1858 W. Whewell Hist. Sci. Ideas II. xvi. iii. 383 The herbaceous plants were divided [in the system of Robert Morison (1680)] into climbers, leguminous, siliquose, unicapsular, bicapsular, tricapsular, quadricapsular, quinquecapsular.
quinquecostate adj. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈkɒstət/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈkɑstət/ [probably after scientific Latin quinquecostatus (1800 in a specific name)] now rare having five ribs; (in quot. 1922 in extended use, alluding to the five parallel lines on which ogham characters are based).
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈkɒsteɪt/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈkɒsteɪt//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈkɒstət/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈkɑˌsteɪt/
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1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit., & Art 290/1 If a leaf has its ribs all distinct from the very base, it is called tricostate, quinquecostate, and so on.
1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 25 219 The Serpulidæ [are represented] by a fragmentary, minute, shining quinquecostate Serpula.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 641 The anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).
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1755 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. IV. 2838/2 A compound imbricated flower, made up of a great many monopetalous, ligulated, and quinquedentated small ones.
1793 Nat. Hist. Birds, Fish, Insects & Reptiles IV. 229 The velutinus, or velvet crab, with the thorax quinquedentated.
1844 Antigua & Antiguans II. lii. 259 The calyx [of the pawpaw] is quinquedentated; and from the centre rises the pointal, surmounted by a crest of four leaves.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Quinquedigitate, having five fingers or toes; pentadactyl.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1063/1 Quinquedigitatus, applied to a leaf the petiole of which terminates in five folioles, as the Cissus quinquefolia: quinquedigitated.
quinquefarious adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfɛːrɪəs/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfɛːrɪəs/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfɛriəs/
[compare post-classical Latin quinquifarius five-fold (c1250 in a British source), also quinquifariam (15th cent.), quinquefariam (1691 or earlier), adverb (compare multifarious adj. and n.)] chiefly Botany divided into five sets, rows, parts, etc./ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfɛriəs/ΚΠ
1781 S. Fullmer Young Gardener's Best Compan. 318 Spiral Upright Aloe; consisting of the Round Spiral Aloe, and the Quinquefarious, or Five-cornered, with leaves imbricated five ways.
1852 A. Gray Plantæ Neo-Texano-Mexicanæ i, in Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. 3 96 These [involucral scales] are more or less evidently quinquefarious in all the proper Chrysothamni.
1887 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee (1993) xiii. 265 The Twenty-Second [U.S. Army Corps] adopted (without orders) a badge quinquefarious in form, that is, opening into five parts, and having a circle in the centre.
1979 Bryologist 82 201 Sphagnum bartlettianum is best recognized by..long, narrow, quinquefarious branch leaves with tips recurved when dry.
quinquefoliate adj. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪeɪt/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliˌeɪt/ Botany now rare (of a plant) having quinate leaves; (of a leaf) quinate.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪət/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪət//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪeɪt/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliət/
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1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 620 It is a Quinquefoliate and Siligniferous Tree, with winged Seed.
1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 2 The leaves something resemble those of the Ash, but are generally trifoliate or quinquefoliate.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 170 It is quinate or quinquefoliate if there are five [leaflets].
1920 Bot. Gaz. 69 403 The presence of additional glands may be accounted for..by the common transition from ternate to quinquefoliate or pinnate leaves.
quinquefoliated adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪeɪtᵻd/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪeɪtᵻd/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliˌeɪdᵻd/
Botany now rare (of a leaf ) quinate; (formerly, of the corolla of a flower) †composed of five (fused) segments (obsolete)./ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliˌeɪdᵻd/ΚΠ
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Quinquefoliated Leaf.
1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 9 A quinquefoliated Leaf..is a digitated Leaf consisting of five Fingers.
1844 Antigua & Antiguans II. lii. 267 Trumpet Flower.., the calyx is quinquefid, the corolla of an elegant bell-shape, and is also quinquefoliated.
1979 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 69 611/2 Each Asian ginseng..has quinquefoliated leaves, scarlet berries, minute white flowers like a scallion, and an aromatic root.
quinquefoliolate adj. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪəleɪt/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliəˌleɪt/ Botany rare (of a leaf) quinate.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪələt/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪələt//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈfəʊlɪəleɪt/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliələt/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliələt//ˌkwɪŋkwəˈfoʊliəˌleɪt/ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > compound or lobed
cut1565
winged1668
pinnate1687
conjugated1690
trifoliated1698
auriculated1712
auriculate1714
pennate1723
pinnated1725
pennated1727
bigeminate1753
lyrated1753
pedated1753
pinnatifid1753
supradecomposite1753
supradecompound1753
ternated1753
trifoliate1753
lyrate1760
pedate1760
quinate1760
ternate1760
tripinnate1760
palmed1767
bilobated1770
lyre-shaped1778
pennatifid1778
finger-parted1783
superdecompound1783
bipinnate1785
biternate1785
conjugate1785
lobed1787
tergeminate1793
wing-cleft1796
yoked?1803
binate1807
septenate1807
trijugous1813
auricled1821
pinniform1821
multijugous1828
pinnulate1828
trifoliolate1828
bipinnatifid1830
multifoliolate1831
multijugate1831
quinquefoliolate1832
bifoliolate1835
pinnatisected1837
palmatifid1839
tripinnatifid1839
foliate1840
palmatipartite1840
pinnatilobate1840
pinnatipartite1840
pinnatisect1840
bipinnated1842
biconjugate1847
imparipinnate1847
paripinnate1851
pinnatulate1855
polytomous1856
multifoliate1857
pennati-partite1857
pennati-sected1857
ternato-pinnate1857
tripinnatisect1857
patentoternate1859
septemfoliate1859
bipinnatipartite1861
bipinnatisected1861
bipalmate1864
pinnatilobed1866
septenous1866
cut-leaved1870
lobing1870
ternatisect1870
tripinnated1876
trijugate1880
jugate1887
pinnulated1890
trisect1899
tridigitate1900
trigeminous1900
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 390 We say..quinquefoliolate or quinate, if there are five [leaflets] from the same point.
1986 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 73 465/2 Chlorospatha croatiana ssp. croatiana is distinct from all other members of the genus except C. gentryi..in its quinquefoliolate leaves.
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1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Quinquejugous Leaf,..a pinnate leaf, with five pairs of leaflets.
quinquelateral adj. and n. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlat(ə)rl̩/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlætrəl/ (a) adj. having five sides; (also) involving five groups or parties; (b) n. a five-sided plane figure.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlat(ə)rəl/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlat(ə)rəl//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlat(ə)rl̩/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlædərəl/
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1705 R. Fleming Christol. I. 12 It was a Place built with Quinque-lateral Porches or Piazza's like Cloyster-walks.
1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 157 Body cylindrical or quinquelateral.
1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 60 The number of lines on the surface which intersect..both the end lines and no others of an open..quinquilateral is 1.
1938 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 3 99 Twelve segments are irregular quadrilaterals, two are quinquelaterals.
1961 tr. N. Krushchev in N. H. Mager & J. Katel Conquest without War vi. 140 Neither a bilateral nor even a quinquelateral treaty can save any rotten throne from its own people.
1980 Internat. Polit. Sci. Rev. 1 518 (caption) A ‘Quinquelateral’ World Image-Plan.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Quinque-libral,..of five pound weight.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 91 Some mention a Triple Choenix, as Bilibral, Quadrilibral, and Quinquelibral.
quinqueliteral adj. and n. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlɪt(ə)rl̩/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlɪtrəl/ Linguistics (a) adj. (of a root) containing five consonants; (b) n. a root containing five consonants.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlɪt(ə)rəl/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlɪt(ə)rəl//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlɪt(ə)rl̩/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlɪdərəl/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlɪdərəl//ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlɪtrəl/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > word or form with specific number of letters
quadriliteral1752
quinqueliteral1793
triliteral1828
society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > word or form with specific number of letters
quadriliteral1650
triliteral1751
tetragrammatical1759
biliteral1791
quinqueliteral1793
uniliteral1828
monographic1953
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 133 They assume triliteral and quadriliteral..roots, and are doubtful whether there are not quinqueliteral.
1846–52 B. Davies tr. F. H. W. Gesenius Hebrew Gram. ii. §30 Combining into one word two triliteral stems, by which process even quinqueliterals are formed.
1912 Jewish Q. Rev. 2 565 Out of five letters 120 quinqueliteral words are formed.
1952 Jrnl. Internat. Afr. Instit. 22 350 Quinqueliterals: tunkulalla ‘arm’, wengərella ‘jackal’.
1989 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 52 253 (heading) Diminutives of quadriliteral and quinqueliteral nouns of a non-classical pattern.
quinquelobate adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈləʊbeɪt/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈləʊbeɪt/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈloʊˌbeɪt/
[probably after scientific Latin quinquelobus (1704 or earlier)] Botany and Zoology having or consisting of five lobes./ˌkwɪŋkwəˈloʊˌbeɪt/ΚΠ
1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. at Hedera Helix Leaves as various as possible, while the plant creeps they are in general trilobate, sometimes quinquelobate.
1883 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 174 436 We see, now, not a wide quinquelobate buccal cavity, but the plicated opening of the narrow food-pharynx.
1987 Jrnl. Paleontol. 61 755/1 Lumen apparently quinquelobate with rays oriented interradially.
quinquelobed adj.
Brit. /ˈkwɪŋkwᵻləʊbd/
, /ˈkwɪŋkwᵻləʊbd/U.S. /ˈkwɪŋkwəˌloʊbd/
Botany rare = quinquelobate adj./ˈkwɪŋkwəˌloʊbd/ΚΠ
1775 J. Jenkinson Linnæus' Generic & Specific Descr. Brit. Plants Gloss. 255 Quinquelobed.
1829 London Encycl. XV. 158/2 at Morus M. papyrifera..grows twenty or thirty feet high, having large palmated leaves, some trilobate, others quinquelobed.
1959 Taxon 8 42 These in no way agree with the leaves of G. herbaceum L., which are usually quinquelobed and profoundly cordate.
quinquelocular adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlɒkjᵿlə/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈlɒkjᵿlə/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlɑkjələr/
Botany and Zoology having five locules or compartments./ˌkwɪŋkwəˈlɑkjələr/ΚΠ
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. xxxii. 154 Campanula, with Fruit quinquelocular.
1853 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 4) 302 A compound ovary of two cells..is bilocular; of three, trilocular; of four, quadrilocular; of five, quinquelocular, and so on.
1929 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 22 47 Ventral spiracular disk pores mostly quinquelocular.
1985 Internat. Jrnl. Insect Morphol. & Embryol. 14 259 The quinquelocular wax glands..are associated with stigmatic furrows.
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1611 B. Jonson Char. Authour in T. Coryate Crudities sig. b Author of these Quinque-mestriall Crudities.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > pentameter
quinquemetre?1567
pentameter1599
pentapody1844
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter sig. Bi Dauid Metres made: Quinquemetres: some trimetres.
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1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 171 Some just Quinquenerval, as in Anisum.
quinquenerved adj.
Brit. /ˈkwɪŋkwᵻnəːvd/
, /ˈkwɪŋkwᵻnəːvd/U.S. /ˈkwɪŋkwəˌnərvd/
Botany rare (of a leaf) having five nerves or veins./ˈkwɪŋkwəˌnərvd/ΚΠ
1856 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms 151 Quinquenerved.
1997 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 84 136 The actinodromous group [of gigantopterid leaves] can be divided into trinerved and quinquenerved types.
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1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 63 A series of tripedal, quadrupedal, and quinquepedal cocks.
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1841 W. Hodgson Life Napoleon xi. 203 Its lengthened quinquepedalian notes.
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1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The quinquepetaloid rosette of a spatangoid sea-urchin.
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1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) List Barbarous Words Quinquipunctal, having five points.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1063/2 Quinquepunctatus,..marked with five points..: quinquepunctate.
1884 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 11 217 There is no more difficult group in the genus [sc. Philonthus] than the little group with simple male tarsi and quinquepunctate thorax.
quinqueradiate adj. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈreɪdɪeɪt/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈreɪdiˌeɪt/ Zoology and Botany now rare having or consisting of five rays.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈreɪdɪət/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈreɪdɪət//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈreɪdɪeɪt/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈreɪdiət/
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1870 Philos. Trans. 1869 (Royal Soc.) 159 703 Usually..only five rays are developed, so that the spicule is quinqueradiate.
1886 Athenæum 12 June 782/3 There are four, six and seven rayed forms as well as the more ordinary quinquiradiate specimens.
1953 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 80 248 Pluriradiate forms [of desmid] are known... These are called triradiate, quadriradiate, quinqueradiate, and so on.
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1868 M. C. Cooke in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 9 332 Lophiostoma semilibera... Sporidia fusiform, straight or curved, acute at each extremity, quinque-septate.
1877 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 127 Sporidia long, elliptical, brown, quinqueseptate.
quinqueserial adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈsɪərɪəl/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈsɪərɪəl/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈsɪriəl/
Botany and Zoology rare arranged in or consisting of five series or rows./ˌkwɪŋkwəˈsɪriəl/ΚΠ
1890 Cent. Dict. Quinqueserial, arranged in five series or rows.
2001 Palaeontology 44 611 The test although quinqueserial or quadriserial initially becomes quadriserial in the adult.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1063/2 Quinqueseriatus.., applied..to quincuncial leaves because disposed along the stem in five longitudinal rows: quinqueseriate.
quinquesyllabic adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻsᵻˈlabɪk/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻsᵻˈlabɪk/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəsəˈlæbɪk/
containing five syllables./ˌkwɪŋkwəsəˈlæbɪk/ΚΠ
1827 J. Tate in J. W. Donaldson Buckham's Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 428 The same is true of similar disyllabic, quinquesyllabic, and other endings.
1927 Classical Philos. 22 362 Each poet has his own preferred and favorite verbs from which he derives the needed quinquesyllabic forms.
2002 B. Vickers Counterfeiting Shakespeare viii. 228 Within these 578 lines, or 4,318 words..quattro- and quinque-syllabic words occur in at least 63 types (individual words), which with repetitions give 78 tokens, or instances.
quinquesyllable n.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈsɪləbl/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈsɪləbl/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈsɪləb(ə)l/
a word containing five syllables./ˌkwɪŋkwəˈsɪləb(ə)l/ΚΠ
1902 N.E.D. at Quinque- Quinquesyllable.
1910 A. W. Verrall in J. E. Sandys Compan. Lat. Stud. viii. 643 The forty-three hexameters..are constructed throughout on the principle of starting with a monosyllable and working up by a kind of syllabic arithmetical progression to the resounding quinquesyllable at the end.
1951 Classical Jrnl. 46 378/2 The line concludes with a sonorous quinquesyllable.
quinquetubercular adj. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtʃᵿˈbəːkjᵿlə/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˌt(j)uˈbərkjələr/ now rare (of a tooth) having five cusps.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtjᵿˈbəːkjᵿlə/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtjᵿˈbəːkjᵿlə//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtʃᵿˈbəːkjᵿlə/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwətəˈbərkjələr/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwətəˈbərkjələr//ˌkwɪŋkwəˌt(j)uˈbərkjələr/ΚΠ
1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 459 The difference between the quadritubercular and the quinquetubercular inferior molar may be understood by reference to Fig. 2.
1945 Jrnl. Paleontol. 19 447/1 Parahyus with its quinquitubercular cheek teeth probably was the first of the short-faced choeropotamids.
quinquetuberculate adj. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtʃᵿˈbəːkjᵿlət/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˌt(j)uˈbərkjələt/, /ˌkwɪŋkwətəˈbərkjəˌleɪt/, /ˌkwɪŋkwəˌt(j)uˈbərkjəˌleɪt/ Zoology now rare having five cusps or tubercles; spec. = quinquetubercular adj.
Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtjᵿˈbəːkjᵿlət/
, /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtjᵿˈbəːkjᵿlət//ˌkwɪŋkwᵻtʃᵿˈbəːkjᵿlət/U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwətəˈbərkjələt/
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1858 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. II. 753 Last molar tooth of lower jaw quinquetuberculate.
1967 Jrnl. Paleontol. 41 731/2 The new species [of Cretaceous ammonite] develops from an early trituberculate stage through a quadrituberculate one to a quinquetuberculate..one.
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1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 325 Of the Quinquevalve. We have one sort of the Pholas.
1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. xiv. 279 Anatiferæ or Barnacles. These shells are quinque-valves.
1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 67 Echinus... Mouth quinquevalve, placed beneath.
1803 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Shells V. Pl. CLXVI (caption) Lepas anserifera... Shell compressed, quinquevalve, striated, and seated on a peduncle.
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis Tab. 14 Indian Plum-stones..Quinquevalvous, Oval.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. III. 80 A globular, pentangular, quinquevalvous capsule of ten cells, having as many seeds.
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1771 J. Marshall in New Royal & Universal Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Hibiscus The fruit is a quinquevalvular capsule with five cells.
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. XIV. 79 A capsule..scabrous on the outside, quinquelocular, quinquevalvular.
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1664 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 332 The papal transubstantiation..by virtue of their quinqueverbal charm.
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1664 H. More Antidote Idolatry x. 128 No more..then their Quinqueverbiall Charm can transubstantiate the Bread and Wine into the Body and Bloud of Christ.
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