quaternate
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In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
They perform the same functions and bear spicules, sometimes in pairs, sometimes quaternate, each spicule being surmounted by a spore.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
For brevity's sake all these cleft and ternate, double cleft and quaternate cotyledons and even the higher grades are combined under one common name and indicated as tricotyls.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
This number in one summer amounted to 46 quaternate and 16 quinate leaves, and it was evident that I had secured an instance of the rare "five-leaved" race which I am about to describe.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
A species of cinquefoil, Potentilla Tormentilla, which is distinguished by its quaternate flowers, occurs in Holland in two distinct types, which have proved constant in my cultural experiments.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
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