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What is the adjective for quincunx?

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quincuncial
  1. Arranged in 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.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He worked on geodesy but became interested in conformal map projections where he invented a quincuncial map projection using elliptic functions.”
      “Thorax nearly spherical, with regular, circular, quincuncial pores of the same breadth as the cephalic pores.”
      “Pores regular, circular, quincuncial, three times as broad in the abdomen as in the thorax.”
quincunxial
  1. Alternative spelling of quincuncial
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