Usually means: Arrangement of five objects, cross.
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  1. quincunx: Merriam-Webster
  2. quincunx: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quincunx: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quincunx: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Quincunx, quincunx: Wordnik
  6. quincunx: Wiktionary
  7. quincunx: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. quincunx: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. quincunx: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Quincunx, quincunx: Dictionary.com
  11. quincunx: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Quincunx (astrology), Quincunx (coin), Quincunx (disambiguation), Quincunx, The Quincunx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Quincunx: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. quincunx: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. quincunx: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. Quincunx: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. quincunx: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. quincunx: FreeDictionary.org
  19. quincunx: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. quincunx: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Quincunx: World Wide Words

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. quincunx: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quincunx: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See quincuncial as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (quincunx)

noun:  An arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
noun:  (astrology) An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.
noun:  A Galton board.
noun:  (historical, numismatics) A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as.

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