Quincuncial
Quincuncial
[Latin quincuncialis, from quincunx. See Quincunx.]
1.
Having the form of a quincunx.
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; as, quincuncial astivation.
Collocations (1)
Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Botany) , an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.