quincunx
nounAn arrangement of five objects or marks with one at each corner of a rectangle or square and one at the center.
nounA Roman brass coin of five unciæ.
nounA reliquary in the shape of a cross, the four parts of which can be folded over the central one.
nounAn arrangement of five objects in a square, one at each corner and one in the middle (thus, ); especially, an arrangement, as of trees, in such squares continuously.
nounIn botany, same as
In astrology, the position of planets when distant from each other five signs or 150°.
nounAn arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
nounThe position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150°.
nounA quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in æstivation. See
An arrangement of five