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单词 quinquangular
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quinquangularadj.

Brit. /kwɪnˈkwaŋɡjᵿlə/, U.S. /kwɪnˈkwæŋɡjələr/
Forms: 1600s– quinquangular, 1700s–1800s quinqueangular.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin quīnque , angular adj.
Etymology: < classical Latin quīnque five (see quinque- comb. form) + angular adj. Compare post-classical Latin quinquangularis (1688 or earlier), French quinquangulaire (1797). Compare earlier quinquangle adj.
Having five angles or corners; pentagonal. Also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > polygonal > pentagonal
five-squared1535
five-square1552
cinquangled1557
pentagonal?a1560
pentagon1570
pentelater1571
quinquangle1590
Pentagonian1598
quinquangled1636
quinquangular1636
pentangular1661
quintangular1687
pentelateral1728
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > pentagonal
cinquangled1557
pentagonal?a1560
pentagon1570
pentelater1571
quinquangle1590
Pentagonian1598
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quinquangular1636
pentangular1661
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pentelateral1728
pentagonoid1882
1636 W. Bedwell tr. P. de la Ramée Via Regia ad Geometriam xxiii. 257 And indeed as the augmentation of a Pyramis from a quaternary is infinite: so is it of a Prisma from a quinary: As if it be from a triangular, quadrangular, or quinquangular base [L. vt sit à basi triangula, quadrangula, quinquangula]; you shal have a Pentaedrum, Hexaedrum, Heptaedrum, and so in infinite.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii v. 63 And it is observable that if Nature shape any thing near this Geometricall accuracy, that we take notice of it with much content and pleasure; As if it be but exactly round..or ordinatly Quinquangular.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ll4v The leaves of Briony are broad, and quinquangular.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 701/1 The..Fortress..was of a Quinquangular Figure.
1760 P. Miller Introd. Bot. 21 A quinqueangular or five cornered leaf.
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. i. ii. 34 At other times they [sc. stems] are angular: being..quadrangular, or square; quinquangular, or five-angled; [etc.].
1872 E. Trollope Sleaford 430 Its east end terminates in a quinquangular apse.
1931 C. A. Smith Satampra Zeiros in Lost Worlds (1944) 11 The place was paven with immense quinquangular flags.
1947 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 11 Mar. 6/3 The quinquangular program takes in spring football, baseball, track, tennis and golf.
1997 Acta Crystallographica B. 53 479/2 Dale..suggested that the quinquangular [33333] conformation of the parent cyclopentadecane has the lowest energy.

Derivatives

quinquangulate adj. Obsolete rare = quinquangular adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1063/1 Quinquangulatus,..quinquangulate.
quinquangulous adj. Obsolete rare = quinquangular adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1063/1 Quinquangulosus,..quinquangulous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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