quartine

English edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quartine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology edit

Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Noun edit

quartine (plural quartines)

(botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

Coordinate terms edit

Anagrams edit

Quranite, antiquer, quainter

Italian edit

Noun edit

quartine f

plural of quartina