Quintate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwɪnteɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Quintate is a verb meaning (botany) Misconstruction of quinate.
Meaning
(botany) Misconstruction of quinate.
More Meanings
- (botany, rare) Misconstruction of quinate.
- (mathematics, rare, of a quinary-decimal number system) The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).
- (obsolete, rare) To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
Example Sentences
The large quintate leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage.
The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.
Leaves 1-2-pinnate or ternate- or quintate-pinnate, the ultimate divisions remote, linear, 1–5 cm long.
As to radiates, these are ternates and quintates, two in number, From among which we “plucked the four-leaf clover.”
Word Forms
- quintating
- quintates
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quinquesect, quintuple, quintilise, fifth, quarterize, quintuplicate.
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