quincuncial

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From Latin quincuncialis.

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quincuncial (comparative more quincuncial, superlative most quincuncial)

  1. Arranged in a quincunx.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. []. Chapter I.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, [] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, [], London: [] Hen[ry] Brome [], →OCLC, page 98:
      Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practiſed much[,] diſcourſed little; []
    • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1297:
      In architecture the quincunxial shape was considered a sort of housing for the divine power – a battery, if you like, which gathered into itself the divinity as it tried to pour earthward, to earth itself – just like an electrical current does.
  2. (botany) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.
    quincuncial aestivation

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