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quinquevalve

quinquevalve adjective: having five valves.

Adjective

quinquevalve (not comparable)

  1. Having five valves.
    • Sundew. Calyx quinquefid, five stamina, five styles, capsule unilocular, quinquevalve at the top, polyspermous.1777, Stephen Robson, The British flora, page 105
    • The quinquevalve shell with its inhabitant, hangs by a fleshy gut-like tube […]1825, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Richard Thomas Gore, A manual of the elements of natural history, page 252
    Synonyms:
    quinquevalvular

Synonyms of quinquevalve

Origin of quinquevalve

From quinque- + valve.

Questions about quinquevalve

What does quinquevalve mean?
Quinquevalve means having five valves.
What part of speech is quinquevalve?
Quinquevalve is an adjective.

Words near quinquevalve in the dictionary

  1. quinquetubercular
  2. quinquetuberculate
  3. quinquevalence
  4. quinquevalency
  5. quinquevalent
  6. quinquevalve
  7. quinquevalvular
  8. quinquevir
  9. quinqueviral
  10. quinquevirate
  11. quinquevirates

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