"quincuncial" meaning in English

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      "word": "quincuncial phyllotaxy"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin quincuncialis.",
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      "form": "more quincuncial",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practiſed much[,] diſcourſed little; […]",
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          "ref": "1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1297:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Arranged in a quincunx."
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          "quincunx",
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          "sense": "arranged in a quincunx",
          "word": "cvincuncial"
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          "text": "quincuncial aestivation",
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        "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."
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          "pentamerous",
          "pentamerous"
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          "calyx",
          "calyx"
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          "corolla",
          "corolla"
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          "imbricated",
          "imbricated"
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          "exterior",
          "exterior"
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        "(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."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/kwɪnˈkʌnʃəl/"
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practiſed much[,] diſcourſed little; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1297:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Arranged in a quincunx."
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          "quincunx",
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        "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."
      ],
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          "pentamerous"
        ],
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          "calyx",
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          "corolla",
          "corolla"
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          "exterior",
          "exterior"
        ],
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          "interior",
          "interior"
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "biology",
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      "sense": "arranged in a quincunx",
      "word": "cvincuncial"
    }
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  "word": "quincuncial"
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