quinate

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The smaller numbers however, are more constant, and deviations from the quinate structure of flowers are rare.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

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 Vries, Hugo de

In some scales a single word only is found in the second quinate to indicate that 5 was originally the base on which the system rested.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard

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 Vries, Hugo de

It is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell