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quincunx(dictionary)

behest (oh) and quincunx (medicine)


behest (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: behAs 'promise', from behatan 'to promise']
at the behest of sb
formal because someone has asked for something or ordered something to happen
::The committee was set up at the behest of the president.

quincunx (medicine)


quincunx


1. An 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.

2. <astronomy> The position of planets when distant from each Other five signs, or 150 deg .

3. <botany> A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial.

Origin: L, fr. Quingue five + uncia an ounce. The quincunx was marked by five small spots or balls. See Five, and Ounce the weight.

Source: Websters Dictionary