quinquefoliate leaf

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   a compound leaf having five leaflets

   Broadercompound leaf

Questions about quinquefoliate leaf

What does quinquefoliate leaf mean?

quinquefoliate leaf means "a compound leaf having five leaflets".

Is quinquefoliate leaf a common word?

quinquefoliate leaf 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.