quinary in English
adjective
1
fifth in order or rank.
2
relating to or denoting a former system of classification in which the animal kingdom is divided into five subkingdoms, and each subkingdom into five classes.
When Darwin read that an opponent of the ‘ quinary ’ system was proposing a modification to sets of four, he expostulated in his notebooks, ‘Anyone may believe anything in such rigmarole about analogies and numbers’.
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