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Definition of Quaternate
1. Adjective. Consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four. "A quaternary compound"
Definition of Quaternate
1. a. Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
Definition of Quaternate
1. Adjective. Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaternate
Literary usage of Quaternate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"It is an erect shrub or small tree with straight ascending branches; trunk about
3 inches in diameter; leaves quaternate subsessile; flowers arranged in ..."
2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"St. slender, 4-angled, flexuous, branched above ; Ivs. linear-shining, rigid,
sessile, margin revolute; fls. opposite or mostly quaternate and terminal on ..."
3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The leaves are quaternate instead of ternate, are subsessile and very ...
On Molokai occur several Pelea with quaternate leaves, resembling this one in ..."
4. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"Mann, Knum. no. 319. Hawaii! woods of Kona. My specimens exhibit both opposite,
ternate and quaternate leaves, while in those collected by Menzies, ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"The quaternate division is confined to six cases (excepting two or three among
... In three only of the six cases of quaternate division are the three ..."
6. British Fresh-water Algae, Exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1882)
"... either single or geminate, and scattered or quaternate, or geminate, ...
Thallus yellow when dry, cellules small, quaternate. Rabh. Alg. iii. p. 42. ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"The quaternate division is confined to six cases (excepting two or three among
... In three only of the six cases of quaternate division are the three ..."
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