quinquefoliate

1. 1.

   (of a leaf shape) having five leaflets

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Questions about quinquefoliate

What does quinquefoliate mean?

quinquefoliate means "(of a leaf shape) having five leaflets".

How many syllables are in quinquefoliate?

quinquefoliate has 5 syllables and divides as quinq-ue-fo-li-ate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is quinquefoliate a common word?

quinquefoliate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.