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Quincuncial
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What's The Definition Of Quincuncial?Synonyms | Synonyms for Quincuncial: Related Terms | Find terms related to Quincuncial: See Also | Quincuncial In Webster's Dictionary \Quin*cun"cial\, [L. quincuncialis, from quincunx.
See {Quincunx}.]
1. Having the form of a quincunx.
2. (Bot.) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla
so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and
the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as,
quincuncial [ae]stivation.
{Quincuncial phyllotaxy} (Bot.), an arrangement of five
leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from
the next.
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