quincunx / ˈkwɪŋ kʌŋks, ˈkwɪn- /

📖毕业后词汇五角星五角形五角星座五角星形

quincunx 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
  2. Botany. an overlapping arrangement of five petals or leaves, in which two are interior, two are exterior, and one is partly interior and partly exterior.

quincunx 近义词

quincunx

等同于 five

更多quincunx例句

  1. Toward the tower Criere stood the orchard full of all fruit-trees, set and ranged in a quincunx.
  2. I divide the city into different portions, and each day I visit another quincunx.
  3. The four faces of this square axis are pierced with three round, equal, truly-bored holes, arranged in a quincunx.
  4. The zone is covered with fine puncta in quincunx, not visible under ordinary illumination.
  5. Three of them enclose the orchard, which is planted quincunx-wise, with yew hedge and grass-walk all round it.