Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for QUIN'QUE-FID
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QUIN'QUE-FID, a. [L. quinque, five, and findo, to split.]
In botany, five-cleft; cut about half way from the margin to the base into five segments with linear sinuses and straight margins; as a leaf. – Martyn.
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