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Relating to, consisting of, or set in an arrangement of five things with one at each corner and one in the middle of a square.

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  • The quincuncial arrangement of the dots is effected by the punching, moistening, and fastening down of odd and even dots, combined with the forward movement of the...
  • Nevertheless the spiral order does occur in the floral leaves as well as in those of the stem; it often happens, especially when the organs are numerous, that they form spiral...
  • Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of all fruit-trees, set and ranged in a quincuncial order.
  • All of which is simply to say: if Charles Sanders Peirce were alive today, he would definitely have a blog. farkItButton (encodeURIComponent ( 'Pragmatic quincuncial...
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