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单词 quinquepartite
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quinquepartiteadj.

Brit. /ˌkwɪŋkwᵻˈpɑːtʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌkwɪŋkwəˈpɑrˌtaɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quīnquepartītus.
Etymology: < classical Latin quīnquepartītus, quīnquepertītus divided into five parts < quīnque- quinque- comb. form + partītus partite adj. Compare earlier quintipartite adj.
1. Divided into, or consisting of, five parts, pieces, etc.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > divided into five or having five divisions
five-fingered1562
quinquepartite1577
five-leaved1658
quintpartite1687
quinarian1765
1577 J. Ludham tr. A. Hyperius Pract. Preaching i. xv. f. 36v Let him knowe, that argumentations tripartite, quinquepartite, Enthymata..appertayne..unto him.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §47 These deedes indented are not only bypartite..but also may be made tripartite,..quinquepartite [etc.].
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 107 A sort of quinquepartite or stellated eggs.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6377/1 The Quinquepartite Indenture.
1791 Cases Law, Equity, & Conveyancing 2 340 By indentures of lease and release of those dates, the release being quinquepartite.
1865 Proc. Royal Soc. 14 376 The organ termed by Joh. Müller the ‘heart’, but certainly having no proper claim to that designation, being a quinquepartite cavity in the central axis.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 197 It [sc. vaulting] may be adopted on one side only, and so be quinquepartite.
1906 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 17 59 Eratosthenes..was also poet, philosopher, and philologian: a quinquepartite polymath with the nickname of the ‘pentathlete’.
1948 Biol. Bull. 94 107 The schema outlined for [the ciliate] A[ncistruma] isseli does not call for specimens with quinquepartite or sexpartite macronuclei.
2006 Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries Sept. 53 The settlement is quinque-partite, the parties [to the contract] being firstly, [etc.].
2. Botany. Of a leaf, calyx, etc.: divided in five sections almost to the base. Cf. quinquefid adj., partite adj. 2. Now rare.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Quinquepartite Leaf, one which is separated into five parts down to the very base... In the same manner a leaf is said to be bipartite, etc.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. III. 172 Besleria... A genus consisting of three species of ligneous, American exotics, adorned with..quinquepartite lip flowers, in clusters and singly.
1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 60 When the divisions [of a leaf] reach nearly to the base, it is said to be parted..and according to the number of these, the leaf is said to be bipartite, tripartite, quadripartite, quinquepartite, and multipartite.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 225 A monosepalous calyx..where the divisions are five, would be described as five-parted or quinquepartite, five-cleft or quinquefid, five-toothed or quinquedentate, according to the depths of the incisions.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 324/2 The divisions of leaves with radiating venation may extend to near the base of the leaf, and the names bipartite, tripartite, quinquepartite, &c., are given according as the partitions are two, three, five or more.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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