Quadrifoliolate 



A DICTIONARY 



Quinquelobate 



apex of the petiole; quadrifo- 

 liolate; quadripbyllous;. quad- 

 rifoil. 



QUADRiFO'LlOLATE, the same 

 as Quadrifoliate, and more 

 precise; i.e., having four leaf- 

 lets arising from the apex of 

 the petiole. 



QTJADRIFfjR'CATE, dividing into 

 four branches. 



QUADRIGEM'INATE, growing in 

 fours 



QUADRIJ'tJGATE, having four 

 pairs of leaflets; quadrijugous. 



QUADRIJ'UGOtJS, see Quadrij- 



UGATE. 



QUADRIlO'BATE, having four 



lobes, as a leaf. 

 QUADRILdCULAR, having four 



cells in an ovary. 

 QUAD'RlNATE, see Quater- 



NATE. 



QUADRIPARTITE, divided to 

 the base or midrib in four 

 parts; four-parted. 



QUADRiPH YLLOUS, see Quad- 

 rifoliate. 



QUADRlvAl/VtJLAR, of four 

 valves — said of pericarps. 



QUAQUAVER'SAL, directed every 

 way. 



QUAR'TERfNG, applied by flo- 

 rists to petals which have an 

 external angle or vacancy be- 

 tween them. 



QTTAR'TlNE, a fourth integument 

 in an ovule (if present) counting 

 from the outside. It is really 

 a layer or fold of the secundine 

 or of the nucleus. 



QUATERNARY, of four parts. 

 Compare Tetramerous. 



QUATJSR'NATE, growing i n 

 fours. 



QTllLLED (Hort.), applied to 

 double flowers in Compositae 

 when the corollas of the flo- 

 rets, instead of being ligulate, 



are more or less tubular in 

 form like a cornet of paper, 

 as is often seen in the dahlia. 



QTJIN-, a prefix from the Latin 

 meaning five. 



QUI'NArIt, in fives or multiples 

 of five. 



QTJI'NATE, growing together in 

 fives, as five leaflets from the 

 apex of a petiole. 



QTJiNCtJN'glAL, applied in aesti- 

 vation to a whorl of live parts, 

 two of which are external, two 

 internal, and one half external 

 and half internal (the typical 

 method of imbricative aestiva- 

 tion when the parts are five). 

 Formerly used also in the sense 

 of five-ranked. In general use 

 the term is applied to objects 

 arranged in squares with one 

 at the centre. In horticulture 

 this arrangement is sometimes 

 termed "false qnincuucial," 

 the true qnincuucial arrange- 

 ment being the disposition of 

 objects so that the intervening 

 spaces are all hexagons. 



QUINCUNX, a set of five objects 

 arranged in a quiucuucial man- 

 ner. 



QUlNQUAN'GtJLAR, five-angled. 



QUlNQUECdS'TATE, five-ribbed. 



QTJJnQTJEDEN'TATE, fi v e - 



toothed. 

 QUlNQUEFA'RiOUS, five-ranked. 

 QUIN'QUEFiD, in five segments 



reaching about half-way to the 



base or margin; five-cleft. 

 QUiNQUEFO'LIATE, having five 



leaflets; strictly, five-leaved. 

 QUlNQUEFO'LlOLATE, the same 



as Quinquefoliate; i.e., having 



five leaflets. 



QUlNQUEJU'GATE, in five pairs. 

 QUlNQUELO'BATE, having five 

 lobes. 



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