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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... three sons, and the actual state of those races which are generally supposed to have sprung from them. It may here be again remarked, that, to render the subject more clear, we have adopted the quinary arrangement of Professor Blumenbach: yet that Cuvier and other learned physiologists are of opinion that the primary varieties of the human form are more properly but three; viz., the Caucasian, Mongolian, and Ethiopian. This ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams



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