What's the difference between quincuncial and quincunx?
Quincuncial
Definition:
() Having the form of a quincunx.
() 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 aestivation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paratenuisentis gen. n. (Tenuisentidae) is characterized by quincuncially arranged proboscis hooks, numerous giant nuclei in the subcuticula and cement glands, and a prominent muscular sling around the proboscis receptacle.
Quincunx
Definition:
(n.) An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
(n.) The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150ยก.
(n.) A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Starting with Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke , which leaned heavily on his revelations about cheap tailors, his influence stretched as far as Philip Larkin's poem " Deceptions ", which re-imagines his harrowing account of a young girl being drugged and raped, and a number of recent works, including Charles Palliser's The Quincunx and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White .