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PRONUNCIATION OF QUINQUEFARIOUS

quinquefarious  [ˌkwɪŋkwɪˈfeərɪəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUINQUEFARIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quinquefarious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES QUINQUEFARIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of quinquefarious in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUINQUEFARIOUS


Aquarius
əˈkwɛərɪəs
curious
ˈkjʊərɪəs
deleterious
ˌdɛlɪˈtɪərɪəs
frumentarious
ˌfruːmənˈteərɪəs
furious
ˈfjʊərɪəs
Guarnerius
ɡwɑːˈneərɪəs
hilarious
hɪˈlɛərɪəs
luxurious
lʌɡˈzjʊərɪəs
Marius
ˈmɛərɪəs
multivarious
ˌmʌltɪˈveərɪəs
mysterious
mɪˈstɪərɪəs
octonarius
ˌɒktəˈneərɪəs
precarious
prɪˈkɛərɪəs
Sagittarius
ˌsædʒɪˈtɛərɪəs
septenarius
ˌseptəˈneərɪəs
serious
ˈsɪərɪəs
spurious
ˈspjʊərɪəs
Stradivarius
ˌstrædɪˈvɛərɪəs
temerarious
ˌteməˈreərɪəs
various
ˈvɛərɪəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUINQUEFARIOUS

quinonoid
quinquagenarian
Quinquagesima
Quinquagesima Sunday
quinquagesimal
quinquecentenaries
quinquecentenary
quinquecostate
quinquefoliate
quinquennia
quinquenniad
quinquennial
quinquennially
quinquennium
quinquepartite
quinquereme
quinquevalence
quinquevalency
quinquevalent
quinquivalent

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUINQUEFARIOUS

bi-curious
carious
censorious
delicious
delirious
glorious
gregarious
illustrious
imperious
industrious
inglorious
injurious
laborious
lugubrious
meritorious
multifarious
notorious
opprobrious
vainglorious
vicarious
victorious

Synonyms and antonyms of quinquefarious in the English dictionary of synonyms

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUINQUEFARIOUS»

The term «quinquefarious» is normally little used and occupies the 145.802 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINQUEFARIOUS»

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1
Flora Capensis: Being a Systemic Description of the Plants ...
Leafy stem always elongated ; leaves short, thick, fleshy, multifarious or quinquefarious ; flowers small, whitish, arranged in simple or compound lax subspioate racemes; pedicels short, ascending; bracts small, ovate. DIBTBXB. Endemic.
William Henry Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, 1897
2
The British Moss-flora: Acrocarpi, I
POTTIA ASPERULA Mitten. Paroicous ; densely caespitose. Leaves quinquefarious, obovate- spathulate, obscure, papillose, nerve excurrent ; caps. oval, lid conic, rostellate, cal. papillose. (T. XXIX, D.) Syn. — Pottia asperula M1tt. Journ. Bot.
Robert Braithwaite, 1887
3
Bryologia britannica: containing the mosses of Great Britain ...
Branches disposed in fasciculi of 3, 5, or 7, the fascicles spirally inserted in a quinquefarious manner, at first short, subclavate and erecto-patent, subsequently elongated, widely spreading, and recurved, the lower branches of each fascicle ...
William Wilson, Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1855
4
The Student's Handbook of British Mosses
The quinquefarious or octofarious arrangement of the leaves while no doubt of some value as a character, and fairly easy of determination in fresh plants, is not of much use in the study of herbarium specimens ; and even with the former it is ...
Hugh Neville Dixon, 1904
5
The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign
Bot. IX. (1871), p. 4. Leaves quinquefarious, oblong, subspathulate, the lower pale, upper green; upper cells half the size of those in P. truncatula, lower oblong pellueid, all smooth; nerve excurrent. Capsule oblong-oval, somewhat narrower at ...
‎1871
6
Bryologia Britannica; containing the Mosses of Great Britain ...
Branches disposed in fasciculi of 3, 5, or 7, the fascicles spirally inserted in a quinquefarious manner, at first short, subclavate and erecto-patent, subsequently elongated, widely spreading, and recurved, the lower branches of each fascicle ...
William Wilson, 1855
7
The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland
383) 265 Lvs quinquefarious, imbricate when moist 103. Conostomum (p. 458) Lvs not quinquefarious, imbricate or not when moist 266 266 Lvs 3-5 mm long 101. Plagiopus (p. 454) Lvs less than 3 mm long 267 267 Margin entire or with a few ...
Anthony John Edwin Smith, 1978
8
The British Moss-flora
Leaves quinquefarious, rounded obovate, the cells large rounded — hexagonal, opake and chlorophyllose. Der. oiSos a swelling, ttous a foot. OEDIPODIUM GRIFFITH!! (Dicks.) Schwaeg. The only species of the genus. (T. LXIII.) Syn.
Robert Braithwaite, 1888
9
Transactions of the British Bryological Society
'A well-marked form showing the characteristics of the slightly rigid, reddish stems , the branch leaves straight or only recurved at the tips, short, broad, and strongly quinquefarious, also the mucronate stem leaves as well as the cross-section of ...
‎1956
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Transactions
'A well-marked form showing the characteristics of the slightly rigid, reddish stems , the branch leaves straight or only recurved at the tips, short, broad, and strongly quinquefarious, also the mucronate stem leaves as well as the cross-section of ...
‎1960

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