Associations to the word «Quincuncial»

Wiktionary

QUINCUNCIAL, adjective. Arranged in a quincunx.
QUINCUNCIAL, adjective. (botany) 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats