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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 quincuncial
 (a.)骰子的五點形的,梅花形的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Quin·cun·cial
 1. Having the form of a quincunx.
 2. Bot. Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation.
 Quincuncial phyllotaxy Bot., an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.
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