quinquelobate means having five lobes. It carries an Arena rating of 1420, earned across 4 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, quinquelobate ranks #6,610 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #8,339 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #10,145 of 17,135 for Most Malleable Words, #15,015 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words.
Why “quinquelobate” is a great word
Having five distinct lobes or rounded projections. Formed from the Latin combining form quinque- ("five") and lobate (from Latin lobus, "lobe"), its earliest known use dates to 1777. Unlike trilobate, which strictly denotes a triad, or multilobate, which speaks only of plurality, quinquelobate is an exact and unhurried census. It is the clean, five-petaled outline of a maple leaf pressed in a book, the star-like symmetry of a periwinkle flower, or the architect’s careful ground plan for a pentagonal bastion—a quiet insistence on order in a world that tends toward the indefinite.
Etymology
From quinque- + lobate.
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