quartine

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quartine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Noun

quartine (plural quartines)

1. (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

Coordinate terms

• tercine
• quintine

Anagrams

• Quranite, antiquer, quainter

Italian

Noun

quartine f

1. plural of quartina