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: quinq-ue-fo-li-ate. The stress falls on "fo".

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.