quadrifurcate 



quinquefoliolate 



used as an equivalent of quadrifo- 

 liate ; quadrifur'cate (furcatus, 

 forked), dividing into four 

 branches ; quadrigem'inate (gemi- 

 mis, a twin), growing in fours ; 

 quadrinila'tus (+ HILUM), having 

 four apertures, as in some pollen- 

 grains ; quadrij'ugate, quadriju- 

 ga'tus, quadrij'ugous-, -gus (jugum, 

 a yoke), having four pairs of leaf- 

 lets ; quadrilo'bate (lobus, a lobe), 

 with four lobes ; quadriloc'ular, 

 (loculm, a little space), having four 

 cells, as some anthers ; quad'rinate, 

 quadrina'tus, quadri'nus, with four 

 leaflets at the end of a petiole, in a 

 digitate arrangement ; quadrinu'- 

 cleate ( + NUCLEUS), used of a cell 

 with four nuclei, from the division 

 of a binucleate cell ; quadripartite, 

 quadriparti'tus (partitus, divided), 

 four-cleft, nearly to the base; 

 quadriphyl'lous (<f>v\\oi>, a leaf) = 

 quadrifoliate ; quadripo'lar (polus, 

 a pole), in nuclear division, when 

 four daughter nuclei arise at the 

 same time ; quadrivalent (valeo, to 

 be effective), applied to a cell which 

 divides into four daughter cells ; cf. 

 BIVALENT (in Add. ) ; quad'rivalve, 

 quadrivalv'ular (valva, a door-leaf), 

 four-valved. 



quaquaver'sal (quaqua, wheresoever, 

 verso, I turn round), directed or 

 bending in every direction. 



Quar'tospore (quartus, fourth, ffiropa, 

 a seed), C. Macmillan's term for a 

 spore enclosing protective and 

 more or less vegetative cells as in 

 Riccia ; Quar'tine, a fourth integu- 

 ment of some ovules, "in reality a 

 mere layer of either the secundine 

 or " nucellus (Lindley). 



quasiradia'tus (quasi, as though, 

 radiatus, spoked), slightly radiant, 

 as where the florets of the ray in 

 some Compositae are small and in- 

 conspicuous. 



Quas'sine, a bitter principle in quas- 

 sia wood. 



quaternary, quater'nate, quatemaf- 

 tus (quaternarius, consisting of 

 four), an arrangement in fours; 



quater'ni (Lat., by fours), growing 

 four together. 



Quer'cite, a glucoside derived from 

 acorns, sweet like sugar, but not 

 fermenting with yeast. 



Quer'citrin, a glucoside in quercitron 

 bark ; its colouring matter, and 

 a commercial dye-stuff. 



Quetelet-Galton Curve, see NEWTON- 

 IAN CURVE. 



quilled, normally ligulate florets 

 which have become tubular. 



qui'nary (quini, five each), in fives ; 

 qui'nate, quina'tus, growing to- 

 gether in fives, as leaflets from the 

 same point. 



Quin'ia, Quinin', or Quinine', an alka- 

 loid occurring in the bark of species 

 of Cinchona, Remija, etc. 



quincun'cial (quincuncialis, contain- 

 ing five-twelfths), (1) arranged in 

 a quincunx ; (2) in aestivation par- 

 tially imbricated of five parts, 

 two being exterior, two interior, 

 and the fifth having one margin 

 exterior, the other interior, as in 

 the calyx of the rose; Quin'cunx 

 (Lat., the fraction A), (1) an 

 arrangement like the five on dice, 

 four at the corners, and one in the 

 centre ; (.2) in five ranks, quin- 

 quefarious ; (3) " the disposition 

 of objects so that the intervening 

 spaces are all hexagons " (Crozier). 



Quinin', see QUINIA. 



Quin'icine and Quin'idine, alkaloids 

 from Cinchona bark. 



quinquan'gular, quinquangular'is 

 (quinquangulus, five-cornered), five- 

 angled ; quinquecap'sular ( + CAP- 

 SULA), with five capsules ; quin- 

 quecos'tate (costatus Bibbed), having 

 five ribs ; quinqueden'tate (dentatus, 

 toothed), with five teeth ; Quin- 

 quere'mus ( + EREMUS), a five-celled 

 gynobasic fruit, as Gomphia ; quin- 

 quefar'ious, -rius (fariam, suffix = 

 rank),in five ranks; quin'quefid (fid, 

 the root of findo, I cleave), five- 

 cleft ; quinquefo'liate, quinquefo- 

 lia'tus (quinquefolius, five-leaved), 

 with five leaves ; quinquefo'liolate, 

 quinquefoliola'tuS) with, five leaf- 



