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Quinary   Listen
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Quinary  adj.  Consisting of five; arranged by fives.
Quinary system (Zool.), a fanciful classification based on the hypothesis that each group contains five types.





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... and Classification of Animals", Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia" London, 1835.) in 1835. He saw in the five races of Man the clue to the mapping of the world into as many "true zoological divisions," and he reconciled the five continents with his mystical quinary circles. ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others


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