quadrifurcate 
quinquefoliolate 
used as an equivalent of quadrifo- 
liate ; quadrifur’cate (furcatus, 
forked), dividing into four 
branches ; quadrigem’inate (gemi- 
nus, a twin), growing in fours; 
quadrihila’tus (+ Hitum), 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 (Jobus, a lobe), 
with four lobes; quadriloc’ular, 
(loculus, 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 (+ Nucwusvs), used of a cell 
with four nuclei, from the division 
of a binucleate cell ; quadripar’tite, 
quadriparti'tus (partitus, divided), 
four-cleft, nearly to the base; 
quadriphyl’lous (¢vAAov, a leaf) = 
quadrifoliate ; quadripo’lar (po/us, 
a pole), in nuclear division, when 
four daughter nuclei arise at the 
same time; quadriv’alent (valeo, to 
be effective), applied to a cell which 
divides into four daughter cells ; ¢f. 
BIVALENT (in Add.) ; quad’rivalve, 
quadrivalv’ular (valva, a door-leaf), 
four-valved. 
quaquaver’sal (quagua, wheresoever, 
verso, I turn round), directed or 
bending in every direction. 
Quar’tospore (quartus, fourth, copa, 
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, quaterna’- 
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, ete. 
quincun’clal (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 r:), (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 QUINTA. 
Quin’icine and Quin’idine, alkaloids 
from Cinchona bark. 
quinquan’gular, quingquangular’is 
(quinquangulus, five-cornered), five- 
angled ; quinquecap’sular (+ Car- 
SULA), with five capsules; quin- 
quecos’tate (costatus,ribbed), having 
five ribs ; quinqueden’tate (dentatus, 
toothed), with five teeth; Quin- 
quere’mus (+ Eremvs), a five-celled 
gynobasic fruit, as Gomphia ; quin- 
quefar’ious, -rius (fariam, sufix= 
rank),in five ranks; quin’quefid (id, 
the root of jindo, I cleave), five- 
cleft ; quinquefo’liate, quinguefo- 
lia'tus (quinquefolius, five-leaved), 
with five leaves ; quinquefo‘liolate, 
quinquefoliola’tus, with five leaf- 
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