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Quincunx   Listen
noun
Quincunx  n.  
1.
An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
2.
(Astrol.) The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150°.
3.
(Bot.) A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.






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"Quincunx" Quotes from Famous Books



... a body of men chequerwise. A method of surveying a coast by five vessels in quincunx was proposed by A. Dalrymple to the admiralty, when that board would not have allowed of the employment ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth



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