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English
Etymology
From quinque- + valve.
Adjective
quinquevalve (not comparable)
- (botany, biology) Having five valves.
1777, Stephen Robson, The British flora, page 105:Sundew. Calyx quinquefid, five stamina, five styles, capsule unilocular, quinquevalve at the top, polyspermous.
1825, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Richard Thomas Gore, A manual of the elements of natural history, page 252:The quinquevalve shell with its inhabitant, hangs by a fleshy gut-like tube
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