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Webster 1913 Edition


Quinate

Qui′nate

,
Adj.
[L.
quini
five each.]
(Bot.)
Growing in sets of five; – said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.

Qui′nate

,
Noun.
(Chem.)
A salt of quinic acid.
[Written also
kinate
.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Quinate

QUI'NATE

,
Adj.
[from L. quinque.] In botany, a quinate leaf is a sort of digitate leaf having five leaflets on a petiole.