Definition of "quaternate" []

• Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four. (adjective)

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• "I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland."
• "When a plant bearing a quaternate leaf is thus transplanted however, it rarely repeats the [341] anomaly."
• "This number in one summer amounted to 46 quaternate and 16 quinate leaves, and it was evident that I had secured an instance of the rare "five-leaved" race which I am about to describe."