Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
quinary |
adjective |
Consisting of five; arranged by fives. |
quiname |
adjective |
Growing in sets of five; — said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole. |
quinate |
noun |
A salt of quinic acid. |
quindem |
noun |
A fifteenth part. |
quinine |
noun |
An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. |
quinism |
noun |
See Cinchonism. |
quinnat |
noun |
The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); — called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance. |
quinone |
noun |
A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. |
quinoyl |
noun |
A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl. |
quintal |
noun |
A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental., A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. |
quintan |
adjective |
Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever., An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days. |
quintel |
noun |
See Quintain. |
quintet |
noun |
Alt. of Quintette |
quintic |
adjective |
Of the fifth degree or order., A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic. |
quintin |
noun |
See Quintain. |