a. Bot. Also 8–9 quinque-. [ad. L. quinquifid-us, f. quinque + fid-: see QUADRIFID.] Cleft in five.
1703. J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1425. The calyx is quinquifid and hoary.
1785. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxi. (1794), 291. Their common characters are a quinquefid calyx.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med. (ed. 6), 711. The … true calyx is one-leafed … with an obtusely quinquifid Margin.
